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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by grey-area »

vips7L wrote: post #286
linsomniac wrote: post #230

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>I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" I think you misunderstand "swarms of agents", based on what you say above. An agent swarm, in my understanding and checked via a google search, does not imply working on multiple features at one time. It is working on one feature with multiple agents taking different roles on that task. Like maybe a python expert, a code simplifier, a UI/UX expert, a QA tester, an…

They’re not experts.

What do you mean, my prompts specifically ask for a phd level expert in every field?

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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by jiggunjer »

ryandrake wrote: post #128
nu11ptr wrote: post #111

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> Personally waiting for one agent to do something while I shove my thumb up my butt just waiting around for it to generate code that I'll have to fix anyway I spend that time watching it think and then contemplating the problem further since often, as deep and elaborate as my prompts are, I've forgotten something. I suspect it might be different if you are building something like a CRUD app, but if you are building…

In my workflow, it's totally interactive: Give the LLM some instructions, wait very briefly, look at code diff #1, correct/fix it before approving it, look at code diff #2, correct/fix it before approving it, sometimes hitting ESC and stopping the show because the agent needs to be course corrected... It's an active fight. No way I'm going to just "pre-approve all" and walk away to get coffee. The LLMs are not ready…

It sounds like diff #2 depends on approval of diff #1? But with cursor it's a set of diffs that'll be retroactively approved or rejected one by one. So you can get coffee during the thinking and still have interactive checks. Swarm changes nothing about this, except affecting the thinking time.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by level87 »

The main reason we pay for cursor is for bugbot, that alone pays for itself 10x over.

Personally I never use the actual IDE, and much prefer Claude code with helix in the terminal.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by pjmlp »

dist-epoch wrote: post #157
Uehreka wrote: post #140

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VS Code wouldn’t have won the mid-2010s editor wars if it was closed source (note that VS Code has not helped MS ramp people up to VS itself). The winner of that war was always going to be an open source editor, it was just Microsoft whose concept won out. Closed source editors like Coda failed to gain traction and even Sublime Text fell eventually. If MS ever decided to discontinue VS Code or relicense it, there wou…

Sublime Text fell because VS Code was just better, not because it was closed source. I switched from Sublime Text to VS Code, and didn't care one bit how open or close either was. Not saying there aren't people who care, there are, but they are a small minority.

More like many devs are cheap and paying for Sublime is too much to ask for.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by yangcheng »

It's looks like antigravity's agent manager or codex app. Guess we have new unified interface now , IDEs have out grown vscode UX

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by pjmlp »

guzfip wrote: post #60
tipsysquid wrote: post #35

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shudders does anyone pine for eclipes? I haven't used it in a decade, Im sure it has has evolved

My job replaced eclipse with VSCode for Java+Spring development. Can’t say I miss eclipse, but a lot of the VSCode extensions seems to utilize old legacy eclipse stuff and has the bugs to match.

Your are still running Eclipse, Red-Hat and Microsoft run it headless.

It is not old.

Likewise Oracle VSCode version runs Netbeans headless.

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Post by victorbjorklund »

noodletheworld wrote: post #237
linsomniac wrote: post #230

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>I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" I think you misunderstand "swarms of agents", based on what you say above. An agent swarm, in my understanding and checked via a google search, does not imply working on multiple features at one time. It is working on one feature with multiple agents taking different roles on that task. Like maybe a python expert, a code simplifier, a UI/UX expert, a QA tester, an…

> does not imply working on multiple features at one time. How can multiple parallel agents some local and some in the cloud be working on a single task? How can: > All local and cloud agents appear in the sidebar, including the ones you kick off from mobile, web, desktop, Slack, GitHub, and Linear. (From the announcement, under “Run many agents in parallel”) …be working on the same task? Subagents are different, but…

Same way a developer and designer can work on the same feature during the same week? Or two developers working on the same feature during the same week. They can have a common api contract and then one builds the frontend and the other works on the backend.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by bornfreddy »

zargon wrote: post #270
whackernews wrote: post #223

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Why is this comment so pale I cat read it? What’s the contrast on this is this accessible to anyone? I’m guessing it was downvoted by the masses but at the same time I’d like the choice to be able to read it I’m not that into what the general public think about something. I’m getting into downmaxxing at this point. I love that you have to earn being negative on this site. Give it to me.

Click on the timestamp link to go to the comment's own page where it will be rendered black instead of gray.

Except it isn't (anymore)? Timestamp + reader mode worked though.

Edit: it is black if logged in, gray if logged out. Weird.

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