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Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by sexyman48 »

oersted wrote: post #119
saltyoldman wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think personally I really like Claude, but our company has standardized on Cursor. Both are very good. I do like the tab completion. The "accept/undo" flow of cursor is really annoying for me. I get why its there, but it just seems like a secondary on top of Git. I usually get everything in a completely committed state so I can already see all my changes through the standard git management features of "VSCode". I t…

I like the "accept/undo" feature because it allows for much more granular control. You can accept some files or lines, and give feedback or intervene manually in other parts. I don't like building up technical debt by accepting everything by default.

As in chess, stock trading, and combat aviation, people at first believed humans ought to curate computer-generated strategies. Then it become obvious the humans were unnecessary.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by hackernewds »

deaux wrote: post #87

Cursor will soon be irrelevant. The one thing that it excels at is autocomplete, and that's ironically the one feature they bought out and integrated (Supermaven) instead of developing themselves, which sums it up quite well. It's still making good money based on having been first to market , but it's market share has been in freefall for ages, only accelerating. The agentic side is nothing special and it's expensive…

Do you work at Supermaven, because that is 100% not the case

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by kiitos »

siva7 wrote: post #18
aeon_ai wrote: post #4

Why waste precious milliseconds typing complete sentences to your AI coding assistant? With autocomplete in the prompt box, we've solved the most pressing problem facing developers today: prompt fatigue. Gone are the days of exhausting yourself by typing full requests like "refactor this function to use async/await." Now, simply type "refac—" and let our AI predict that you want an AI to refactor your code. It's AI a…

You write like that's a bad thing. What's with the negativity here..

you're right, i guess it's only negative if you think it's important for people to understand the code they produce, if that's not a concern for you then no problemo

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by nailer »

causal wrote: post #121
nailer wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Claude Code was fine in CLI and has a nearly-identical extension pane now too. One of us is wrong here. Last I checked, the extension pane was a command line, that doesn't use macOS keybindings, reimplements common controls, uses monospaced text for prose, etc. I don't mind particularly about the last two but 'cmd A' on my Mac highlight all the text in the Claude Code user interface, rather than the text in the tex…

Sounds like you're still using the terminal. I'm talking about https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi...

That's exactly the one I'm discussing. The extension pane runs in a terminal and has all the behaviors mentioned. Unless they rewrote the thing in Electron it doesn't use normal UI keyboard shortcuts or controls.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by anthonypasq »

deaux wrote: post #91
anthonypasq wrote: post #8

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Cursor is your best option if you want to switch models frequently, run multiple agents in parallel, and also have the best tab complete out there. And you're still getting extra vc-funded tokens. You get ~$40 worth of tokens at API costs for the $20 plan. idk seems worth it to me. If youre shelling out on one of the $200 plans maybe its not as worth it, but it just seems like the best all in one ai product out there…

Except for the autocomplete, it's not the best option even for the user you're describing.

nothing else does it all

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by anthonypasq »

Sammi wrote: post #107
deaux wrote: post #91

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Except for the autocomplete, it's not the best option even for the user you're describing.

Does anyone have autocomplete that is half as good as Cursors? I just tried vanilla vs code with github copilot and it was terrible. Not worth paying for bad.

windsurf is probably half as good

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by jsnell »

sersi wrote: post #40

I really don't understand Cursor's 30 billion dollars valuation (half of Antropic). I use it, it's not a bad tool by any means but it's so buggy from version to version. Latest bug I had, it completely stopped keeping my zsh state in the terminal, I had to downgrade. And honestly, I'm not that sure what secret sauce is worth 30 billion dollars? The agent loop? Others can do that? The autocomplete?

That's 1/6th of Anthropic, not half.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

enraged_camel wrote: post #26
siva7 wrote: post #18

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You write like that's a bad thing. What's with the negativity here..

>> What's with the negativity here The builders are quietly learning the tools, adopting new practices and building stuff. Everyone else is busy criticizing the tech for its shortcomings and imperfections.

> The builders are quietly learning the tools, adopting new practices and building stuff

I thought the "you're not a real programmer if you don't use AI" gatekeeping would take a little longer than this, but here we are. All from the most minor of jokes.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by DrNosferatu »

- Does anyone know good, thorough video tutorials for Cursor?

I use Cursor, but I don’t know if I’m using it to the fullest.

(same for Claude Code - I never used it, and would actually like to compare between them)

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by nojs »

causal wrote: post #38

I got into Cursor a little late, went really heavy on it, and see myself using it less and less as I go back to VSCode. 1) The most useful thing about Cursor was always state management of agent edits: Being able roll back to previous states after some edits with the click of a button, or reapply changes, and preview edits, etc. But weirdly, it seems like they never recognized this differentiator, and indeed it remai…

> The most useful thing about Cursor was always state management of agent edits

Note that CC introduced this yesterday, it’s very fast and good.

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