IMO it's a strategic misstep to try and create their own IDE with a fork of VS Code. I'm only going to consider AI Tools that integrate with my IDEs (primarily VS Code + Rider) as such my AI weapons of choice are now: augmentcode.com (fave), GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist and now Claude Code now that I can use it with my pro plan.
Cursor 1.0
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Re: Cursor 1.0
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone said "I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code" And your answer is "A lot of power in social influence.", which is a bit silly when autocomplete is the first form of AI assistance a critical mass of people found intuitive + helpful and Cursor has the best implementation of it... meanwhile Cline/Roo Code don't provide it.
You don’t get it - autocomplete is evolving from keyboard clicks to prompts. Tab-ing is not as effective as agentic coding. Your beloved cursor will go all in on this front, less and less priority on focused cursors in the editor.
I actually like programming, and I find typing and having the model autocomplete my changes pretty useful.
I’d rather do that than painstakingly put my request into prose, cross my fingers, and hope the “agent” doesn’t burn 100,000 tokens making stupid and unrelated changes all over my codebase.
I believe in “show, don’t tell,” and autocomplete is the former while agents are the latter.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
also with claude code yesterday i just told it a few times "hey that didn't work, let's go back to what we had before." works just fine also!
Re: Cursor 1.0
#284As 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 think the focus on Cursor Agent is misplaced. I always turn to Ask and find it annoying they keep reverting it to Agent any time I'm not looking.
Same! :)
Re: Cursor 1.0
#285IMO it's a strategic misstep to try and create their own IDE with a fork of VS Code. I'm only going to consider AI Tools that integrate with my IDEs (primarily VS Code + Rider) as such my AI weapons of choice are now: augmentcode.com (fave), GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist and now Claude Code now that I can use it with my pro plan.
Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years after its launchRe: Cursor 1.0
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
C.C. can commit if you ask it
it did tons of commits when i started to have a really big session yesterday, and i didn't even have to ask!
Re: Cursor 1.0
#287As 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…
press esc twice, you get a list of previous checkpoints you can revert back to.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#288IMO it's a strategic misstep to try and create their own IDE with a fork of VS Code. I'm only going to consider AI Tools that integrate with my IDEs (primarily VS Code + Rider) as such my AI weapons of choice are now: augmentcode.com (fave), GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist and now Claude Code now that I can use it with my pro plan.
Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years after its launch
Revenue is far from the whole story. What is their _profit_?
If you sell $1.00 USD for $0.90 you can get nearly unlimited revenue (until you run out of cash).
Re: Cursor 1.0
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Sure, if you already have the knowledge and can do it faster than the AI, you can do it yourself. But a beginner in system administration can also do it fast.
I do not think that is a good thing in the long run. More people in fields they know absolutely nothing about? That does not sound like a good thing to me. I am going to become a chemical engineer (something I know absolutely nothing about) or some shit and have an LLM with me doing my job for me. Sounds good I guess?
Re: Cursor 1.0
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years after its launch
Revenue is far from the whole story. What is their _profit_? If you sell $1.00 USD for $0.90 you can get nearly unlimited revenue (until you run out of cash).
Revenue/users/employees are all that matters cause they will get bought for $20B by one of the M7 or another AI company this year likely.