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Re: Cursor 1.0

#31

Post by nsingh2 »

BudaDude wrote: post #13

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.

Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft extensions, like Python and C++.

The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor uses is several months old, so we're stuck using older extensions until they update.

[1] https://open-vsx.org/

Re: Cursor 1.0

#32

Post by theappsecguy »

Cursor had been atrocious. Building on top of an already crappy IDE, you’d hope that they are at least keeping up with VSCode improvements and updates. But they are far behind and instead keep slapping on more garbage.

The agent stuff is largely useless. The tab prediction go nuts every few seconds completely disrupting flow.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#34

Post by bluetidepro »

kshacker wrote: post #33
bluetidepro wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Goat is slang for “(the) greatest of all time.”

I was today years old minus maybe a few months when I learned this, and I had seen it referenced so many times.

Some interesting reading about the term: https://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2018/09/0...

Re: Cursor 1.0

#35

Post by esafak »

deadbabe wrote: post #30
lopatin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel unstoppable with Claude Code Max. I never thought I'd pay $200 per month for any developer tool, yet here we are, and I also couldn't be happier with it.

Would you pay $400?

Don't give people ideas.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#36

Post by esafak »

philip1209 wrote: post #6

There has to be some kind of joke in here about how long it takes people to declare a 1.0 release. "1 million ARR? Not yet. 10 million ARR? Not yet. 300 million ARR? Maybe soon."

"A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion."

Re: Cursor 1.0

#37

Post by eikenberry »

AstroBen wrote: post #12
jadbox wrote: post #7

VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.

Have you given the alternatives a genuine test? My experience with Aider (never used Cline) is that it's nowhere near as good

Doesn't this rely completely on the AI it is using and not the client?

Re: Cursor 1.0

#38

Post by SR2Z »

kshacker wrote: post #33
bluetidepro wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Goat is slang for “(the) greatest of all time.”

I was today years old minus maybe a few months when I learned this, and I had seen it referenced so many times.

This one is not particularly new. I wanna say that GOAT was new in the early 90s.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#39

Post by attentive »

hollowturtle wrote: post #21
jadbox wrote: post #7

VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.

copilot autocomplete? my experience with it has been very delusional, cursor prediction in cursor(bad naming let's be honest) is simply unmatched

Did you change CompletionModel to 'gpt-4o-copilot'? - it may be the default now, provided you keep copilot extension updated.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#40

Post by girvo »

theappsecguy wrote: post #32

Cursor had been atrocious. Building on top of an already crappy IDE, you’d hope that they are at least keeping up with VSCode improvements and updates. But they are far behind and instead keep slapping on more garbage. The agent stuff is largely useless. The tab prediction go nuts every few seconds completely disrupting flow.

> The tab prediction go nuts every few seconds completely disrupting flow.

This is my main gripe with it, too. It's still been semi-useful at least for some analysis and examination of our code-base, but editing and autocomplete I've not found super useful yet.

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