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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by amirhirsch »

fragmede wrote: post #227
prennert wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know how Claude code compares to using Aider with anthropic API? I have been using the Claude.ai interface in the past and have switched to Aider with Anthropic API. I really liked Claude.ai but using Aider is a much better dev experience. Is Claude Code even better?

Claude Code (and Cursor, for that matter) don't commit to git. Fundamentally that's just bonkers to me. Aider does, so each prompt can be /undo 'd. I had a chance to use Cursor at work, and if that's how people are interacting with LLMs, it's no wonder we can't agree on this whole "are LLMs useful for programming" thing. ChatGPT Codex is on another level for agentic workflow though. It's been released to (some?) "plu…

MCP for Claude code that asks ChatGPT O3 for help. This is the way.

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

therein wrote: post #209
TheYumasi wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude code asks you permissions for every command. It also gives you the possibility of marking commands as safe so next time it can use them without asking .

So these agents that people are so excited about spawning in parallel stop and ask you before executing each command they choose to execute? What kind of life is that. I'd rather do something myself than tell 5 AI agents what I want and then keep approving each command they are going to run. I'm not saying it is better if they run commands without my approval. This whole thing is just doesn't seem as exciting as othe…

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by dolphenstein »

meowface wrote: post #210
gazagoal wrote: post #154

As someone who has two annual subs of Cursor Pro (one from student account and another from Lenny's newsletter), I just spent $100 on Claude Code and I haven't touched Cursor AI for any coding tasks since. If you already spend anything near or over $100 on Cursor, it's no brainer. The agent experience is night and day. No more wrong tool-calling, premature ending of conversation, failure to apply changes or overwriti…

As a long-time Cursor user, I just tried Claude Code for the first time two days ago and I found it: - Burning tokens with constant incorrect command-line calls to read lines (which it eventually gets right but seemingly needs to self-correct 3+ times for most read calls) - Writing the string "EOF" to the end of the file it's appending to with cat - Writing "\!=" instead of "!=" - Charged me $7 to write like 23 lines…

The Pro account is only $20/month and works with Claude Code.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by sensanaty »

raincole wrote: post #222
delbronski wrote: post #163

Anyone tried Junie from JetBrains? Im super happy with it. I’m not sure how it compares to other coding agents though.

I'm not sure why they don't support Rider. Surely C# is a very commonly used language and AI should handle it well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152

Evidently not

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Post by Sammi »

rmonvfer wrote: post #199
gazagoal wrote: post #154

As someone who has two annual subs of Cursor Pro (one from student account and another from Lenny's newsletter), I just spent $100 on Claude Code and I haven't touched Cursor AI for any coding tasks since. If you already spend anything near or over $100 on Cursor, it's no brainer. The agent experience is night and day. No more wrong tool-calling, premature ending of conversation, failure to apply changes or overwriti…

I was spending around $800 in Cursor and I’ve switched to Claude Code with a $200 subscription and I couldn’t be happier. The experience is way better (although tbh Claude Code is missing some critical features like being able to rollback changes (or, as Cursor calls them “checkpoints”)) but for 99% of my “Vibe Coding”, it’s just great. I usually run 2 to 4 parallel sessions using git worktrees and the speed is absol…

I use frequent git staging to get a rolling checkpoint. It works with any code or environment.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by hn_throw2025 »

nojs wrote: post #48
asar wrote: post #5

Cursor recently lost me as a customer. Too many updates that disturb my workflow and productivity, no easy way to roll back versions, super sparse changelogs, lots of magic in context building, really untransparent pricing on max mode. I recently made the switch to Claude Code on the Max plan and I couldn't be happier. The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files, but I assume it's just a matter of t…

> The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files You can commit checkpoints prior to each major prompt and use any IDE’s builtin visual diff versus last commit. Then just rebase when the task is done

I have a workflow that also uses micro commits. I keep my older JetBrains IDE open at the same time. Using feature branches liberally, any successful interaction between me and the LLM in Cursor results in a micro commit. I use the Cursor AI ‘generate commit message’ for speed. Every so often, I switch over to Jetbrains to use Git Interactive Rebase to tidy up the commits, as the diff viewer is unsurpassed. Then those micro commits get renamed, reordered, squash merged as required. All possible from Git CLI of course, but the Jetbrains Git experience is fantastic IMHO. All their free community edition IDEs have this.

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Post by Imanari »

prennert wrote: post #196
gazagoal wrote: post #154

As someone who has two annual subs of Cursor Pro (one from student account and another from Lenny's newsletter), I just spent $100 on Claude Code and I haven't touched Cursor AI for any coding tasks since. If you already spend anything near or over $100 on Cursor, it's no brainer. The agent experience is night and day. No more wrong tool-calling, premature ending of conversation, failure to apply changes or overwriti…

Does anyone know how Claude code compares to using Aider with anthropic API? I have been using the Claude.ai interface in the past and have switched to Aider with Anthropic API. I really liked Claude.ai but using Aider is a much better dev experience. Is Claude Code even better?

CC is more autonomous, which can be a double edged sword. In big codebases you usually don't want to make large changes and edit multiple files. And even if you do, letting the LLM decide what files to edit increases the chance for errors. I like Aider better aswell. It's a precision tool and with some /run it is pretty flexible for debugging.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by piperswe »

kookamamie wrote: post #194
greenknight wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude Code Pro ($17 per month) now supports it, just ends earlier

Pro does not support Claude Code, the agent. The docs say it does, but it wouldn't work yesterday when I actually tried it.

Claude Code was added to the Pro tier in the last day or two; they've been working out some kinks with it

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

meowface wrote: post #210
gazagoal wrote: post #154

As someone who has two annual subs of Cursor Pro (one from student account and another from Lenny's newsletter), I just spent $100 on Claude Code and I haven't touched Cursor AI for any coding tasks since. If you already spend anything near or over $100 on Cursor, it's no brainer. The agent experience is night and day. No more wrong tool-calling, premature ending of conversation, failure to apply changes or overwriti…

As a long-time Cursor user, I just tried Claude Code for the first time two days ago and I found it: - Burning tokens with constant incorrect command-line calls to read lines (which it eventually gets right but seemingly needs to self-correct 3+ times for most read calls) - Writing the string "EOF" to the end of the file it's appending to with cat - Writing "\!=" instead of "!=" - Charged me $7 to write like 23 lines…

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by dkersten »

I stopped using Cursor once Zed released their agent mode. Cursor consistently leaks memory for me even with all extensions removed, Zed is much lighter weight and in my personal opinion just a better editor.

Also, Trae being $10 for more requests makes Cursor far less appealing to me.

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