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Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by huvarda »

TZubiri wrote: post #19
aeon_ai wrote: post #4

Why waste precious milliseconds typing complete sentences to your AI coding assistant? With autocomplete in the prompt box, we've solved the most pressing problem facing developers today: prompt fatigue. Gone are the days of exhausting yourself by typing full requests like "refactor this function to use async/await." Now, simply type "refac—" and let our AI predict that you want an AI to refactor your code. It's AI a…

I hate writing prompt starters for AI, I wish I had a tool that automatically started sentences so that my AI could autocomplete it

lowkey typing is so cumbersome though they should make an ai model that can read my thoughts and generate a prompt from them so i don't have to anymore

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by aeon_ai »

siva7 wrote: post #18
aeon_ai wrote: post #4

Why waste precious milliseconds typing complete sentences to your AI coding assistant? With autocomplete in the prompt box, we've solved the most pressing problem facing developers today: prompt fatigue. Gone are the days of exhausting yourself by typing full requests like "refactor this function to use async/await." Now, simply type "refac—" and let our AI predict that you want an AI to refactor your code. It's AI a…

You write like that's a bad thing. What's with the negativity here..

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Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by ebiester »

huvarda wrote: post #21
TZubiri wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate writing prompt starters for AI, I wish I had a tool that automatically started sentences so that my AI could autocomplete it

lowkey typing is so cumbersome though they should make an ai model that can read my thoughts and generate a prompt from them so i don't have to anymore

You are thinking too small. AI should be able to determine what my thoughts should be and execute them so I don't have to spend my precious time actually thinking.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by rickette »

vel0city wrote: post #17

Anyone have good recommendations for plugins integrating things like LM Studio or Ollama into Visual Studio or Jetbrains IDEs? I'd like to do more local AI processing on code bases instead of always relying on outside providers, but a lot of these things like Copilot and Cursor seem so well integrated into the IDE.

JetBrains native AI assistant supports Ollama out of the box. No need for a 3rd party plugin anymore.

See https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/use-custom-model...

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by enraged_camel »

siva7 wrote: post #18
aeon_ai wrote: post #4

Why waste precious milliseconds typing complete sentences to your AI coding assistant? With autocomplete in the prompt box, we've solved the most pressing problem facing developers today: prompt fatigue. Gone are the days of exhausting yourself by typing full requests like "refactor this function to use async/await." Now, simply type "refac—" and let our AI predict that you want an AI to refactor your code. It's AI a…

You write like that's a bad thing. What's with the negativity here..

>> What's with the negativity here

The builders are quietly learning the tools, adopting new practices and building stuff. Everyone else is busy criticizing the tech for its shortcomings and imperfections.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by hansonkd »

I wish cursor would let you see how much usage in terms of $$ you have done for your month. Its really hard to see in the dashboard the individual charges tokens, but then there is no cumulative. I haven't been able to find a way to see how much of my included usage is being used besides downloading the csv and manually summing. They just give you a very unhelpful "You will use your included credits by X date"

I suppose this is by design so you don't know how much you have left and will need to buy more credits.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by aeon_ai »

enraged_camel wrote: post #26
siva7 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You write like that's a bad thing. What's with the negativity here..

>> What's with the negativity here The builders are quietly learning the tools, adopting new practices and building stuff. Everyone else is busy criticizing the tech for its shortcomings and imperfections.

Look, I use AI regularly. I value AI.

It's not a criticism of AI, broadly, it's commentary on a feature designed to make engineers (and increasingly non-engineers) even lazier about one of the main points of leverage in making AI useful.

Re: Cursor 1.7

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Post by oersted »

I'd love to hear from folks who mainly use Claude Code on why they prefer it and how they compare. It seems to be the most popular option here in HN, or at least the most frequently mentioned, and I never quite got why.

I always preferred the deep IDE integration that Cursor offers. I do use AI extensively for coding, but as a tool in the toolbox, it's not always the best in every context, and I see myself often switching between vibe coding and regular coding, with various levels of hand-holding. And I do also like having access to other AI providers, I have used various Claude models quite a lot, but they are not the be-all-end-all. I often got better results with o3 and now GPT-5 Thinking, even if they are slower, it's good to be able to switch and test.

I always felt that the UX of tools like Claude Code encourage you to blindly do everything through AI, it's not as seamless to dig-in and take more control when it makes sense to do so. That being said, they are very similar now, they all constantly copy each other. I suppose for many it's just inertia as well, simply about which one they tried first and what they are subscribed to, to an extent that is the case for me too.

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