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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by rubyn00bie »

rustystump wrote: post #92
davnicwil wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess would be this is less driven by product philosophy, more driven by trying to maximise chances of a return on a very large amount of funding in an incredibly tough market up against formidable, absurdly well-funded competitors. It's a very tough spot they're in. They have a great product in the code-first philosophy, but it may turn out it's too small a market where the margins will just be competed away to z…

It is interesting that i find composer to be one of my favorites as while it is a bit dumb it is about 100x faster than the fat boys. Sometimes u need the beef of opus but 80% composer is plenty.

I have been on the fence if I think composer is useful, but the speed argument is one I hadn’t really considered. I use cursor with Opus almost exclusively but the other day I tried using OpenCode locally with a 6-bit quantized version of Qwen 3.5 and holy crap the speed and latency were mind blowing. Even if not quite as sharp as big boi Opus and the gang.

Now you’ve got me thinking I should give composer another go because speed can be pretty darn great for more generic, basic, tasks.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by cedws »

anthonypasq wrote: post #117
cedws wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this model where you don't get an editor anymore feels like a step backwards. I don't want to give up LSPs, being able to step into/rename functions and stuff like that. I should still be the one in control of the code - the agent is the assistant, not me. This is why Zed's direction felt pretty strong to me. Unfortunately their agentic features are kind of stagnating and the ACP extensions are riddled with iss…

did you watch the 90 second video in the post? all of this is addressed

No but I have now. It’s hard to tell from that few seconds but it doesn’t look like it’s really putting the developer in the driving seat, just providing a minimal escape hatch for manual edits.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by throwaway613746 »

seamossfet wrote: post #11

Man, I wish they'd keep the old philosophy of letting the developer drive and the agent assist. I feel like this design direction is leaning more towards a chat interface as a first class citizen and the code itself as a secondary concern. I really don't like that. Even when I'm using AI agents to write code, I still find myself spending most of my time reading and reasoning about code. Showing me little snippets of…

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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by imiric »

fragmede wrote: post #95
nu11ptr wrote: post #91

I've been running Claude Code in my Cursor IDE for a while now via extension. I like the setup, and I direct Claude on one task at a time, while still having full access to my code (and nice completions via Cursor). I still spend time tweaking, etc. before committing. I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. I can barely keep straight my code working on…

> have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. Good for you! Personally waiting for one agent to do something while I shove my thumb up my butt just waiting around for it to generate code that I'll have to fix anyway is peak opposite of flow state, so I've eagerly adopted agents (how much free will I had in that decision is for philosophers to decide) so ther…

I find it puzzling whenever someone claims to reach "flow" or "zen state" when using these tools. Reviewing and testing code, constantly switching contexts, juggling model contexts, coming up with prompt incantations to coax the model into the right direction, etc., is so mentally taxing and full of interruptions and micromanagement that it's practically impossible to achieve any sort of "flow" or "zen state".

This is in no way comparable to the "flow" state that programmers sometimes achieve, which is reached when the person has a clear mental model of the program, understands all relevant context and APIs, and is able to easily translate their thoughts and program requirements into functional code. The reason why interrupting someone in this state is so disruptive is because it can take quite a while to reach it again.

Working with LLMs is the complete opposite of this.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by ninininino »

throwaw12 wrote: post #96
seamossfet wrote: post #11

Man, I wish they'd keep the old philosophy of letting the developer drive and the agent assist. I feel like this design direction is leaning more towards a chat interface as a first class citizen and the code itself as a secondary concern. I really don't like that. Even when I'm using AI agents to write code, I still find myself spending most of my time reading and reasoning about code. Showing me little snippets of…

> I still want to _code_ not just vibe my way through tickets. Now we have 3 ways of coding: * vim / emacs - full manual * VSCode / IntelliJ - semi-automatic * ClaudeCode/Codex/OpenCode/... - fully automated Cursor can't stay in between

Saying it can't stay in between is like saying a company can't sell both regular bikes and electric bikes. Or bikes that can do both.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by WhitneyLand »

The features here don’t seem game changing. The most compelling parts are mostly already available in Claude or Codex or their related apps and services.

The biggest concern is that if you want to use SOTA models I don’t see how they can match what you get with the subscription plans of Anthropic and Open AI, whether your spending $20 or $200 a month.

Even if they could match what you get in terms of token quantity, they are giving their tools away for free for the foreseeable future and Cursor is not.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by babelfish »

ninininino wrote: post #106
babelfish wrote: post #84

No per-agent auto-worktree? This is the killer feature of Conductor, having to type `/worktree` into every new chat isn't really a resolution. Not even sure what selecting 'Worktree' for a new chat does

"having to type `/worktree` into every new chat isn't really a resolution" I don't know what you're talking about. My experience with Cursor (before this new v3) is that new Cursor agent tabs / cloud agents already intelligently manage worktrees to prevent conflicts.

Wow, maybe something is wrong with my setup. In Cursor 3, I am clicking "New Agent" at the top left. My root repository is correctly listed on top of the composer, and I clicked the icon to the right of it and selected 'Worktree'. Then, I instruct the model to run `pwd` and tell me it's git status. It's always just on `main` in my root repository. I dug through the settings and couldn't find anything, and after finding this comment[0] on their forums gave up. Would you mind sharing a bit more about your setup/how it works?

[0] https://forum.cursor.com/t/working-with-worktrees-in-cursor/...

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by dmix »

mgambati wrote: post #148

Is composer 2 any good? Can it be compared to opus ou gpt 5.4?

No it's not very good. But when you run out of Claude tokens it's perfectly fine for small stuff.

Cursor's inline autocomplete is very good though, much better than anything I could reproduce in Zed with various 3rd party "edit" LLMs (although checking google, they announced a new model since I tried it https://zed.dev/blog/zeta2)

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