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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by cc62cf4a4f20 »

cc62cf4a4f20 wrote: post #260
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 used to use Cursor and just deal with the slow requests for most of the month because it was the most affordable way to leverage an agent for coding, but I didn't find it so much better than Cline or Roo. When I first tried Claude Code, it was immediately clear to me that it worked better, both as an agent and for me, but it was way too expensive. Now with the $200/mo. Max plan, I couldn't be happier.

That said, I still approach it with the assumption that Claude Code is just mashing its fists on the keyboard and that there needs to be really strong, in-loop verification to keep it in line.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by brutuscat »

jameslk wrote: post #98

Cursor wishlist item for any PM listening: When reviewing the changes made from agent mode, I don’t know why the model made the change or whether the model even made the change versus a tool call making the change. It’s a pain to go fish out the reason from a long response the model gives in the chat. Example: I recently asked a model to set up shadcn for a project, but while trying to debug why things looked pretty…

Ah! You are asking for version control system?

It’s called git!

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by koolba »

dolphenstein wrote: post #233
meowface wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not quite. You pay ala carte for it with API pricing.

The $100/mo max plan lets you use a Claude Code with a fixed bill. There’s some usage limits though.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by asar »

1ucky wrote: post #9
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…

Since last week it’s possible to use Claude Code in the VSCode terminal where it now automatically installs a plugin to display the diffs.

thanks! i never set this up properly. did it now though, really cool!

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by eloisant »

bananapub wrote: post #256
eloisant wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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. 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.

I guess the world doesn't work like that because employers don't even understand high school economics.

They'd rather have an employee spend 2 weeks on a task than shell out a few bucks at it, because they don't realize the 2 weeks of salary is more expensive than the external expense.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by asar »

h2782 wrote: post #64
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 current max pricing is actually as transparent as it has ever been: It's 20% more to use Max than the APIs directly. I am not sure if your feedback is outdated/based on a previous version of reality?

Yes, they've updated the docs since last week, I guess. Before, it didn't mention the 20% markup.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by luckystarr »

flawn wrote: post #159
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…

Can you elaborate why Claude Code is that much better in regard to also the missing in built IDE functionality?

I mostly use it to understand and fix my bugs/Rust compilation problems that I can't be bothered to fix. 95% happy with the results so far. For coding I use Claude in chat though, as my thoughts are mostly not clear enough at the start to finish a component to my liking. Fixing bugs is easier, though I had to tell it to "not remove features" sometimes. Feature gone, bug gone. ;)

Claude code now automatically integrates into my ide for diff preview. It's not sugar, but it's very low friction, even from the cli.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by romanovcode »

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 just recently got $200 sub for Claude and it really is worth it. I work with very large codebases and to be honest Cursor is horrible at those. Claude takes time but in the end it can explain how things work in detail, unlike Cursor.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by serverlessmania »

This product is going to be obsolete with the rise of terminal-based agents like Claude Code and Codex. Why would I abandon my entire workflow and toolset to use a fork of VSCode? Especially one that Microsoft will likely make increasingly difficult to maintain.

Developers use Vim, JetBrains, Emacs, VSCode, and many other tools—what makes you think they’ll switch to your fork?

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 »

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 was spending around $800 in Cursor

What are you doing that costs that much?

I refactored a whole code base in cursor for 200k lines of code).

I don't use completions though. Is that where the costs add up?

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