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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by ipnon »

ai_assisted_dev wrote: post #116

I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. I spend so much time inside cursor, that I am spending 10-20$ per day on additional requests. Now if I connect model provider APIs to windsurf, I'd be spending upwards of 100$ due to amount of tokens I use through the API per day. And if I connect my own API key to Cursor, I immediately get rate limited for any request, because I go well above 50 per min…

It hints that there could be real capital deployment limits to a near-term future of artificial intelligence explosion.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by shinycode »

ramoz wrote: post #101
BoorishBears wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's silly. Cursor has the best autocomplete experience, period, and some people prefer that to agent-style interactions. There's still a ton of low hanging fruit that other Copilot-style autocomplete products don't seem to be picking up, like using clipboard contents, identifying the next place in the file to jump to, etc. I primarily save time coding with AI with autocomplete, followed by chat, with agentic flows…

It’s not silly at all. There is a lot of hyper activity going in terms of social influence. I didn’t say cursor has poor UX. I tab too. And use agent for cheaper work I don’t care too much about. That said, the best autocomplete is arguably evolving and cursor does not own that.

I have too much work and too little time. I tried them all and cursor is the only one with a polished enough experience that made it stick right away. Others might be good but I didn’t have anything near the flowless experience of cursor

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

smcleod wrote: post #75
demosthanos wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because at some point we have to stop riding the treadmill and just pick a tool and use it to make stuff. Cursor was the first to really arrive at a useful agent mode. It does everything I need it to and more. It's not worth it to me to keep hopping to new tools every time a new one becomes the hyped up hot thing. Like it or not, we're hitting the slope of enlightenment and some of us are ready to be done with the ch…

Cline was agent based from day one and doesn't try to do copilot style tab completes at all. It's been our go to agentic coding app across the majority of our large clients since mid-late 2024. Cursor has been trying to play catch up but has not delivered us the same results.

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

ramoz wrote: post #111
BoorishBears wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone said "I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code" And your answer is "A lot of power in social influence.", which is a bit silly when autocomplete is the first form of AI assistance a critical mass of people found intuitive + helpful and Cursor has the best implementation of it... meanwhile Cline/Roo Code don't provide it.

You don’t get it - autocomplete is evolving from keyboard clicks to prompts. Tab-ing is not as effective as agentic coding. Your beloved cursor will go all in on this front, less and less priority on focused cursors in the editor.

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by ukuina »

ai_assisted_dev wrote: post #116

I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. I spend so much time inside cursor, that I am spending 10-20$ per day on additional requests. Now if I connect model provider APIs to windsurf, I'd be spending upwards of 100$ due to amount of tokens I use through the API per day. And if I connect my own API key to Cursor, I immediately get rate limited for any request, because I go well above 50 per min…

> so much time is spend waiting for the request to complete (while I work on another part of the app in a different workspace with Cursor).

You can open up to three parallel chat tabs by pressing Cmd+T

https://docs.cursor.com/kbd

Each chat tab is a full Agent by itself!

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by hysan »

Have they managed to fix the bug where applying changes to a file moves the file to the first in your list of open files? And even pinning it if you have other files pinned? Overall, while I've liked using Cursor, it has many bugs like this that I haven't experienced in other VSCode forks and makes me wonder what they consider to be 1.0 quality.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by adastra22 »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #105
curiousElf wrote: post #95

I wish they had proper support for multi root repos (even though the last update promised better support, it was just a line in the release notes with no docs - which seems to be their usual change management style). Its so painful - the model never knows the directory in which it is supposed to be and goes on a wild goose chase of searching in the wrong repo. I have to keep guiding it to the right repo. Anyone here…

I have a cursor rule that tells it about directories. Basically just X is UI, Y is BE, Z is auth. Keep it short. It's enough for it to realize it needs to navigate directories.

Does cursor ever read your rules? It is constantly ignoring very clear directives in my .cursorrules file.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by adastra22 »

SR2Z wrote: post #38
kshacker wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was today years old minus maybe a few months when I learned this, and I had seen it referenced so many times.

This one is not particularly new. I wanna say that GOAT was new in the early 90s.

But not widespread until recently. I'm a 90's kid and I only remember it being used for sports superstars and such.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by mirzap »

techpression wrote: post #112
blixt wrote: post #108

I keep switching away from and back to Cursor (mainly due to frontier models explicitly fighting their apply model, the first few times it’s funny to see the LLM itself write “this is frustrating” but I digress). And every time I find it having diverged further from VSCode compatibility. This wouldn’t be so bad if it was an intentional design choice but it seems more that Microsoft is starting to push them out? Like…

I fully expect MS to change the VS Code license in the not so far future to make applications like Cursor not possible. Forking might be a thing initially but will quickly fade since without the backing of MS the ecosystem around it will die.

Not likely. They open sourcing the Copilot UI is the way to kill further attempts to fork. Now you don't have to fork to have features you could get only by forking and maintaining the fork. The amount of work to make a Cursor competitor is significantly reduced.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by barrenko »

jadbox wrote: post #7

VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.

FOAM / obsidian is markdown + graph building, or does it also add additional keywords to markdown?
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