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For some reason, CLIs feel better as coding agent UIs. I loved Cursor at first, but now with Claude Code, it feels like Cursor's UI gets in the way.
(I work at Cursor) We also have a CLI, if you prefer coding in the terminal. We've seen this useful for folks using JetBrains or other IDEs: https://cursor.com/cli
Is it possible to run Cursor entirely with local models? My Mac can comfortably run relatively massive models. I would experiment so much more with AI in my codebases knowing that I won't slam into a brick wall due to quotas, connection issues, etc.
1 year since canceling Cursor; I thank them for being a stepping stone on my journey of agentic coding. Legacy tech, but a great idea before models got good enough to use via CLI.
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It’s obviously farcical. Anyone seriously using these tools knows that context engineering and detailed specific prompting is the way to be effective with agent coding. Just take it to the extreme and youll see; what if you auto complete from a single word? A single character? The system youre using is increasingly generating some random output instead of what you were either a) trying to do, or b) told to do. Its fu…
What’s wrong with autocompleting the prompt? There exists entropy even in the English language and especially in the prompts we feed to the llms. If I write something like “fix the ab..” and it autocompletes to AbstractBeanFactory based on the context, isn’t it useful?
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…
What I hate about Cursor is that - even when I have credits left - it still hangs for a full minute before starting to respond. Not always, but often enough. You don't know what you're buying, you might get fast response, you might get a tortoise.
I personally wouldn’t want to use cursor without Max.
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…
(I work at Cursor) 1. Checkpoints/rollbacks are still a focus for us, albeit it's less used for those working with git. Could you share the bug you saw? 2. Autocomplete for prompts was something we were skeptical of as well, but found it really useful internally to save time completing filenames of open code files, or tabbing to automatically include a recently opened file into the context. Goal here is to save you k…
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What’s wrong with autocompleting the prompt? There exists entropy even in the English language and especially in the prompts we feed to the llms. If I write something like “fix the ab..” and it autocompletes to AbstractBeanFactory based on the context, isn’t it useful?
Agreed with your point, but entropy is almost the opposite of what you wanted to express here (which is that the English language is compressible).
* Broke users' keyboard shortcuts again.
Seriously, every Cursor update adds another override, their most favorite seeming to be Cmd+E. If I'm not mistaken, poor Cmd+E changed what it does already 3 or 4 times. And every time I have to remove the newly added shortcut to restore "find with selection"...
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I tried vanilla vs code again three weeks ago. The tab complete was so slow and gave such poor results that I had to crawl back to Cursor after not even a full week. Cursor is sooo fast and useful in comparison.
The main reason I use Cursor is for their tab complete model. I enjoy using Neovim more than Cursor, but I choose not to use it because I haven't been able to find anything that makes me as productive as Cursor's tab model.
Isn't it super-annoying and frustrating to have half-useful text constantly thrown at you? As someone once said, 'Cursor tab is doing too much'.
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…
VScode has a bit of a history now of quickly deprecating competitors who innovate in this space. It already has good options for code completion, AI chat bots, and more features on the horizon. I'm not sure what cursors moat is. Seems to me like Microsoft could easily implement any new feature cursor comes up with.