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Re: Cursor CLI

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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)

> Use with your ChatGPT plan It's asking me to buy credits but I'm already on Plus?

Got past that but now hitting the bad request error that lots of people seem to have

Re: Cursor CLI

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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

> 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)

CLAUDE.md is placed in front of the first input for your session, right after the system prompt. That’s all. It’s not given any more weight than the rest of the context, and idk what compacting the conversation does to it.

Re: Cursor CLI

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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.

You can include in your prompt for it to read the README!

It’s a crapshoot of it actually does.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Fascinating to see how agents are redefining what IDEs are. This was not really the case in the chat AI era. But as autonomy increases, the traditional IDE UI becomes less important form of interaction. I think those CLI tools have pretty good chance to create a new dev tools ecosystem. Creating a full featured language plugin (let alone a full IDE) for VSCode or Intellij is not for a faint-hearted, and cross IDE por…

IDE UI should shift to focusing on catching agentic problems early and obviously, and providing drop dead simple rollback strategies, parallel survival-of-the-fittest solution generation, etc

My fundamental worry with this technology is that you all are going to seriously fuck up the development experience for those of us who feel the technology at the core of this stuff is not sufficient. Development efforts will focus on this work flow at the expense of good software.

Re: Cursor CLI

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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…

In case you haven’t seen this, you can just pipe contents into Claude. Eg cat AGENT.md | claude IIRC this saves some tokens.

Why would it save tokens?

Re: Cursor CLI

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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.

Besides being unwilling, it is unusable if you don’t have an account. It’s as bad as linking to Facebook.

Re: Cursor CLI

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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

For example: i'm using Claude Code mostly + Gemini CLI. Gemini CLI is not such powerful as CC, also it won't work with some mcp's. So i have different *.md files.

Re: Cursor CLI

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Why is Claude Code better than Cursor?

Because iterating multiple sessions through multiple terminals is obviously more efficient and seamless than interacting thought a scuffed IDE side panel ui.

Is this sarcasm? I used Claude Code via a VSCode side panel.

Re: Cursor CLI

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

Yea, the reason is RFC9309.

That's actually a good point, but we have RFCs superceding RFCs all the time. My favorite RFC, 8601, superseded I think half a dozen other RFCs.

Re: Cursor CLI

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If you don’t know how to divide a problem up given a toolset you won’t be able to solve it regardless of what those tools are. Maybe Cursor’s interface is more intuitive for you.

The problems I’ve given CC are things that are incredibly simple and basic. Things I knew how to fix immediately. I would tell it the gilt to change and how to change it. And it will get lost when the types are incorrect, or when it causes a test to fail. It will like just delete the test. I don’t doubt I could improve my prompts but I don’t have those same prompting problems with cursor.

Don’t know what to say. Those problems are exactly why I left Cursor behind—I don’t really encounter those issues with Claude Code (despite only using Anthropoc models in either case).
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