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The Pro account is only $20/month and works with Claude Code.
I learned about it from this thread and will buy a month's worth to keep playing with it. (48 hours ago the documentation said it was only supported for Max.)
I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
> If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open This is good user feedback. If Cursor is "Claude + VSCode", why do you need the other 2 open?
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?
They both can just use api credits so I’d suggest spending a few dollars trying both to see which you like.
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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…
But a beginner in system administration can also do it fast.
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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.
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Did you choose to not read his full reply? I'll repeat it again for you: > Except that in most of the world outside SV
Even in a European with lower wages compared to US, total cost of a developer will be minimum 5000 euros/per month. And that's just salary with all taxes, not accounting laptop costs, office space, etc. You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.
lolololol
> You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.
who “needs” that and who pays for it?
the employer for both?
high school economics class is not how the world works, regrettably.
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Yes. It’s already profitable to run inference at today’s prices. AWS isn’t subsidising you when you buy compute from them. And inference cost is declining steeply. > The cost of LLM inference has dropped by a factor of 1,000 in 3 years. — https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/ AI startups are not profitable because they are throwing vast sums of money at growth and R&D, not because inference is unaffordable.
But, we need a future where unlimited inference, in parallel is profitable. It is not: even less than cloud compute (where it is terrible also), when I buy 500 flimflams for $50/mo, what did I buy exactly? As currently it seems to depend on the position of the moon: one time 10 prompts make what I want, sometimes 100 prompts keep looping over the same issue unable to fix it (like a typescript type issue which takes m…
You are asking if infinite usage is affordable.
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> I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. They don't make any money. They are burning VC money. Anthropic and OpenAI are probably also not making moeny, but Cursor is making "more no money" than others.
Are anthropic and openai making money (including training and infra costs)?
This is based on what I've read here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the... (big AI bear, for what it's worth)
edit: Well, if they shed the other expenses that only really make sense when training future models (research, more data, fewer employees ..) they would be pretty close to break even.
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Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.
I've found Emacs plus gptel very pleasant to use. And following the ethos of Emacs, it is backend agnostic and very malleable. Besides, if you want something inexpensive, using Gemini 2.0 Flash as a backend is completely free. Google provides an API key at no cost.
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…