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Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by anxman »

nlh wrote: post #136
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #100

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Why is Claude Code better than Cursor?

What I have found Claude Code is extremely good at is that it makes one change at a time, gives you a chance to read the code its changing, and lets you give feedback in real time and steer it properly. I find the mental load with this method to be MUCH lower than Cursor or any of the other tools which give you two very different options: "Ask" mode which dumps a ton of suggestions on your and then requires semi-manu…

+1 to this. Cursors Agent feels too difficult to wrangle. CC is easier to monitor.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by troupo »

novaleaf wrote: post #138
ako wrote: post #137

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I asked claude code for a guidelines file so it would collaborate with windsurf. This is what it proposed: --- This project uses shared planning documents for collaboration with Claude Code. Please: 1. First read and understand these files: - PLAN.md - current project roadmap and objectives - ARCHITECTURE.md - technical decisions and system design - TODO.md - current tasks and their status - DECISIONS.md - decision h…

problem is that claude doesn't actually read those or keep them in context unless you prompt it to. it has to be in CLAUDE.md or it'll quickly forget about the contents

> it has to be in CLAUDE.md or it'll quickly forget about the contents

And then it will promptly forget about CLAUDE.md as well (happened to me on several occasions)

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by hollowturtle »

amclennon wrote: post #8

At this point, there are more AI coding agents announced every week than Javascript frameworks, but to be honest, I'm here for it.

Think how much training has been done on such Javascript frameworks... no one stops wondering what the outcome would be. The only fact that when I ask to create an app, without any further detail about what to use, and it defaults on React, imo it's a total failure whatever the agent

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by troupo »

thehamkercat wrote: post #62
prmph wrote: post #55

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Yep, that's a peeve of mine. I've resorted to using AGENT.md, and aliasing Claude, Gemini, etc to a command that calls them with an initial instruction to read that file. But of course they will forget after some time. The whole agentic coding via CLI experience could be much improved by: - Making it easy to see what command I last issued, without having to scroll up through reams of output hunting for context - Maki…

I think most of them provide an option to change the default file, but it'll be really good if they all can switch to AGENT.md by default Till then you can also use symlinks there are issues opened in some repos for this - Support "AGENT.md" spec + filename · Issue #4970 · google-gemini/gemini-cli https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/4970#issu...

And then they should standardize on usage rules (an idea in Elixir space: https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html )

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by troupo »

dgunay wrote: post #90
thehamkercat wrote: post #21

I wonder when all of them will adopt AGENT.md and stop using gemini.md/claude.md/crush.md/summary.md/qwen.md https://agent.md [redirect -> https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md ] https://agent-rules.org

I just wish the AGENTS.md standard wasn't a single file. I have a lot of smaller context documents that aren't applicable to every task, so I like to throw them into a folder (.ai/ or .agents/) and then selectively cat them together or tell the agent to read them.

Elixir has this idea with usage rules: https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by tough »

gpeal wrote: post #144
LeafItAlone wrote: post #124

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I find the Codex CLI to be the worst of the CLI tools I’ve used (including, but not limited to, Claude Code, Gemini, Aider). There’s something about it that makes it clunky. Haven’t tried Cursor CLI yet though.

We (Codex) shipped a pretty large CLI update today and have many more improvements coming. Give it a try if you haven't. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1953559797883891735 (0.19 now)

nice! auto-updates like open code could help to not have to remember to update

loving the animations and todos so far

also gpt-5 is just great at agentic stuff

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by dagss »

gorjusborg wrote: post #14
unsupp0rted wrote: post #2

What's the benefit of this compared to the IDE? To be more like Claude Code?

Flip your thinking around for a second and consider why an IDE is required for an agent that codes for you? The IDE/editor is for me, the agent doesn't need it. That also means I am not forced to used whatever imperfect forked IDE the agent is implemented against.

Whenever I have to take the wheel myself the AI tab completion makes it much smoother so I am kind of addicted to that. Semi-automatic mode.

I would much rather use IntelliJ so perhaps my habits will change at some point, but right now I am stuck with Cursor/vscode for the tab completion.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by cheema33 »

LeafItAlone wrote: post #161
gpeal wrote: post #144

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We (Codex) shipped a pretty large CLI update today and have many more improvements coming. Give it a try if you haven't. https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1953559797883891735 (0.19 now)

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll check it out! I don’t visit Twitter links. Why not a link to the GitHub changelog? Also, as an aside since you are on the team - the organization verification is frustrating in that the docs indicate: >You must not have recently verified another organization, as each ID can only verify one organization every 90 days. I champion OpenAI at my work, so naturally I’d be the one to verify the…

Another +1 to this. Some of us are unwilling to click on a Twitter link. Link to changelog would be more appropriate.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by mark_undoio »

Touche wrote: post #106
byronic wrote: post #102

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I have (not an exhaustive list) SSH keys and sensitive repositories hanging out on my filesystem. I don't trust _myself_ with that, let alone an LLM, unless I'm running ollama or similar local nonsense with no net connectivity. I'm a few degrees removed from an air gapped environment so obviously YMMV. Frankly I find the idea of an LLM writing files or being allowed to access databases or similar cases directly dista…

They don't have arbitrary access over your file system. They ask permission for doing most everything. Even reading files, they can't do that outside of the current working directory without permission.

I'm pretty comfortable with the agent scaffolding just restricting directory access but I can see places it might not be enough...

If you were being really paranoid then I guess they could write a script in the local directory that then runs and accesses other parts of the filesystem.

I've not seen any evidence an agent would just do that randomly (though I suppose they are nondeterministic). In principle maybe a malicious or unlucky prompt found somewhere in the permitted directory could trigger it?

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by bloppe »

touristtam wrote: post #155
wilg wrote: post #33

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Think how many JavaScript frameworks can be vibe coded now!

To be honest I am being positive and hopefully we'll see an explosion of AI agent that will help iron out all the bug in FOSS that is hosted on different source code hosting platform. Renovate on steroid. I would work on that if my daytime job wasn't my main and only source of revenue.

Ask a FOSS maintainer and they will not be nearly as optimistic about AI reducing the amount of bugs. A lot of AI generated pull requests are broken or useless and the up wasting a lot of the maintainers' time
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