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Re: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

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Post by wmichelin »

DeathArrow wrote: post #100
make3 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why is that part impressive specifically? they got purchased by SpaceX, they have access to infinite compute and cash now. & now they're still losing all of their users to Claude Code and Codex.

>& now they're still losing all of their users to Claude Code and Codex. Why pay for Cursor when I can use GLM 5.1, Kimi K2.6, MiniMax M2.7, Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 Pro and Deepseek v4 for cheap and use whatever harness I want, including Claude Code. It's not like Cursor harness is the best out there. And even if I want to edit the code, I don't need to run the agent harness in an IDE.

Not a cursor shill by any means, I do use it at work but that's because it's what they pay for.

But Cursor has a CLI harness.

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Post by ifwinterco »

maxdo wrote: post #220
ifwinterco wrote: post #198

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Even if it's true, it's not like US AI companies can complain, given their entire business is based on ripping off text without attribution

chinese ai is not doing the same? or they don't parse? they do except they also send thousands of sex-spies to do espionage of this kind on the scale.

Of course they’re also doing this, my point is this is a grubby business where ethics went out of the window a long time ago.

If you’re playing this game in 2026 you know the rules - anything goes

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Post by Survey8430 »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #219
Aurornis wrote: post #216

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Quoting directly from your comment: > They’ve been highly successful so far. Raised $50B, They have not raised $50B. The article you linked says they're raising $2B, not $50B. The valuation is not the amount raised.

So I made a mistake reading the article? So what? The point is you made two brigade style comments about my posts sounding suspiciously like an LLM and having hallucinations. Neither turned out to be true and I think a better response would concede the point. It may be more helpful for us to stick together as humans since we can’t always recognize each other so easily anymore.

What do you mean neither turned out to be true?

Your comment DOES sound like an LLM and it DOES have hallucinations!

Please make your humanness more recognizeable next time, don't waste readers time with posh fanboying and lazy fact checking.

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Post by worldsavior »

infecto wrote: post #186
worldsavior wrote: post #162

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Them raising this much money doesn't mean they're successful, it only means they know how to fool the investors well. A project that is basically an extension to VSCode only adding a chat interface, isn't really worth this much money. Obviously, it's the users, but people think it's something genius and revolutionary, but no.

This is rsync all over again. Go create it yourself if you think it’s just a simple extension.

You're right, I regret I didn't have the sense to do the same as them at the time.

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Post by zxspectrum1982 »

ccimmergreen wrote: post #218
vessenes wrote: post #215

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Hmm, I read the situation a little differently. Grok is not a slouchy model. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst. X currently has one source of proprietary data, Twitter, and grok is by far the best at all the things you might imagine there - today’s zeitgeist, who’s saying what, current news, etc. Cursor adds in a large corpus of proprietary coding data — I think this is actually fairly hard to acquire right n…

Unlikely, given that large swathes of talent have already left xAI, ostensibly due to poor leadership management. Simply throwing money in to build the biggest datacenters in the world doesn't do much good without bright minds to back it up. https://www.fastcompany.com/91531084/inside-the-xai-exodus

There's been also a lot of good talent joining xAI lately.

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Post by znpy »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #104
goyozi wrote: post #62

I kind of want to try it, to see if and how far they can take an open model and improve it but I really don’t miss the Cursor user experience. Constant UI changes, half-baked features, smaller and smaller limits, useless AI change attribution; I think I’ll wait for others to report if it’s any good.

Noticed recently they keep opening their “Agents” window when the project was last opened in the VSCode fork window in the hopes I’ll just continue working in that when the UI is totally different and missing things I need. For a professional tool it’s getting egregious how little respect they have for my workflows and flow state they way they keep moving, changing iconography and flipping switches of the UI. It’s cl…

> It’s clearly being ran by someone who comes from a social app or sales app growth hacking background.

I fixed that by using cursor the agent but not the UI.

I'm just running cursor in GNU Emacs via agent-shell (https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell). Their cli client (aptly named "agent") supports ACP (agent client protocol) so the UI can be skipped altogether.

I know this sounds like a meme ("use x in emacs") but at this point at the very least i can keep my workflows and my UI all the same and focus on my work rather than "where did $company put $feature this month".

Re: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

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Post by znpy »

omederos wrote: post #168
goyozi wrote: post #62

I kind of want to try it, to see if and how far they can take an open model and improve it but I really don’t miss the Cursor user experience. Constant UI changes, half-baked features, smaller and smaller limits, useless AI change attribution; I think I’ll wait for others to report if it’s any good.

Use their cli? https://cursor.com/docs/cli/installation

I use it via the gnu emacs integration :P

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

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Post by infecto »

worldsavior wrote: post #224
infecto wrote: post #186

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This is rsync all over again. Go create it yourself if you think it’s just a simple extension.

You're right, I regret I didn't have the sense to do the same as them at the time.

Nope you are blowing hot air. Take it elsewhere.

Re: Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

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Post by vessenes »

ccimmergreen wrote: post #218
vessenes wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, I read the situation a little differently. Grok is not a slouchy model. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst. X currently has one source of proprietary data, Twitter, and grok is by far the best at all the things you might imagine there - today’s zeitgeist, who’s saying what, current news, etc. Cursor adds in a large corpus of proprietary coding data — I think this is actually fairly hard to acquire right n…

Unlikely, given that large swathes of talent have already left xAI, ostensibly due to poor leadership management. Simply throwing money in to build the biggest datacenters in the world doesn't do much good without bright minds to back it up. https://www.fastcompany.com/91531084/inside-the-xai-exodus

Be careful taking the headlines at face value - that list of people leaving was mostly product and redundant senior execs to my eyes, post spacex merger. You’d expect those folks to be asked to leave as part of a re-org in any event. I don’t think it’s dispositive one way or the other on the tech org.
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