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Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by codesnik »

prmph wrote: post #55
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

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…

maybe symlinking will work

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

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)

Tried your latest version - thanks for posting about it.

Codex needs plan mode (shift-tab in Claude Code)

And Codex needs the prompt to always be available. So you can type to the model while it’s working & have it eventually receive the message and act on it, instead of having to Ctrl-C to interrupt it before typing. Claude Code’s prompt is always ready to type at - you can type while it is working. That goes a long way towards it feeling like it cares about the user.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by adhamsalama »

AdieuToLogic wrote: post #103

When I saw this, the question which immediately came to mind was: Who would turn loose arbitrary commands (content) generated by an LLM onto their filesystem? Then I saw the installation instructions, which are: curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash And it made sense. Only those comfortable with installing software by downloading shell commands from an arbitrary remote web site and immediately executing them wo…

I couldn't even install Cursor on Ubuntu . The issue still exists. Why didn't they ask the AI to fix it?

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #182
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)

Tried your latest version - thanks for posting about it. Codex needs plan mode (shift-tab in Claude Code) And Codex needs the prompt to always be available. So you can type to the model while it’s working & have it eventually receive the message and act on it, instead of having to Ctrl-C to interrupt it before typing. Claude Code’s prompt is always ready to type at - you can type while it is working. That goes a long…

Thanks for mentioning this. These are the kinds of features that are 100% required for me to even consider Codex.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by dotancohen »

eru wrote: post #134
hahajk wrote: post #92

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Yes! I want an option to always add README.md to the context; It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects.

> It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects. Not really: our AI agents are probably smart enough to even make sense of somewhat bad instructions.

Not the case at all. AI agents will happily turn your bad ideas into code.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by dotancohen »

drdaeman wrote: post #168
zarzavat wrote: post #145

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Never. It's a marketing strategy. Some percentage of users will check these files into their repos, and some percentage of repo browsers will think "what is this X.md?" Given how much money people are spending on these things the value of having a unique filename must be enormous.

It’s a marketing strategy that works here and now, but “never” is a very long time. What could be seen as pioneers claiming names today could be also seen as retrogressive stubbornness tomorrow and lose its marketing value.

There's a reason we still call the file robots.txt by that name, and not web-scraping.txt or search-engines.txt.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by dotancohen »

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.

You could have a python script that generates the MD file on the fly, based on how you want to prompt the model. I think it's kind of funny, how deep we are getting with tools instructing tools instructing tools.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by maleldil »

plantain wrote: post #142
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #100

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Why is Claude Code better than Cursor?

CC just feeds the whole codebase and entire files into the model, no RAG, nothing in the way. It works substantially better because of that, but it's $expensive$.

That's not true. It uses CLI tools (e.g. find, grep) to find the relevant code from the codebase.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by radarsat1 »

ako wrote: post #147
novaleaf wrote: post #138

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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

I've added these instructions in CLAUDE.md and .windsurfrules, and yes sometimes you have to remind it, but overall it works quite well.

Sounds like a job for a symlink

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by arcanemachiner »

striking wrote: post #54
sneak wrote: post #53

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When they stop getting desperate for differentiation by spamming their brand advertising in your repo against your will. Claude Code likes to add "attribution" in commit messages, which is just pure spam.

You can turn it off: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/settings#avai... `includeCoAuthoredBy: false`

5 years from now: Subscribe to the Ultra plan for the ability to prevent the LLM from putting ads for Coca-Cola into your code comments!
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