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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by lopatin »

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

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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?

That's a great question. Probably not. IDK. I'm also only paying this much to maintain momentum on a personal project. I also know in a year, these LLM products will change drastically, pricing tiers will transform, etc.. So I can't predict what will happen in a year but things will probably be cheaper.

Edit: On the other hand, the state of the art tools will also be much better in a year, so might keep that high price point!

Am I rationalizing my purchase? Possibly. If I'm not using it daily, I will cancel it, I promise :)

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Post by sneak »

fragmede wrote: post #227
prennert wrote: post #196

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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?

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…

Cursor can commit just fine if you tell it.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by CafeRacer »

I've given up on cursor a while back. Too many updates, sometimes if produces shit when you don't need it to react at all, and sometimes for simple really useful autocompletions it hangs for a long time making snippets way more approachable.

Overall, I am having hard time with code autocompletion in IDE. I am using Claude desktop to search for information and bounce off ideas, but having it directly in IDE – I find it too disturbing.

Also there is this whole ordeal with VSCode Marketplace no longer available in Cursor.

I'm not saying AI in IDE is bad, it's just I personally can't get into it to actually feel more productive.

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Post by matei88 »

christophilus wrote: post #302
i_have_an_idea wrote: post #291

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Yes, this is a paid comment, in the sense that it's probably a bot. 22 day old account, with 1 post, praising Claude. For more than a year, Anthropic has engaged in an extensive guerrilla marketing effort on Reddit and similar developer-oriented platforms, aiming to persuade users that Claude significantly outperforms competitors in programming tasks, even though nearly all benchmarks indicate otherwise.

Well, I’m not a paid comment, and I agree 100% with the op, and have the exact same experience. I haven’t touched Cursor since paying for Claude Code (max or whatever the $100/mo plan is). That said, I never found Cursor very useful. Claude Code was useful out of the gate, so my experience may not be typical.

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Post by input_sh »

slig wrote: post #285
mythz wrote: post #281

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—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years after its launch

That tells you nothing about their operating expenses (I'd bet they're operating in the red), and if you divide that by their cheapest available plan, that's at most 1.5 million paying users (probably way less).

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Post by JBiserkov »

matei88 wrote: post #314
christophilus wrote: post #302

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Well, I’m not a paid comment, and I agree 100% with the op, and have the exact same experience. I haven’t touched Cursor since paying for Claude Code (max or whatever the $100/mo plan is). That said, I never found Cursor very useful. Claude Code was useful out of the gate, so my experience may not be typical.

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by topaz0 »

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…

Hold on a second... are you spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars of your own money to pay for AI? People are doing that?

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Post by luckyandroid »

ramoz wrote: post #111
BoorishBears wrote: post #107

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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.

Nah, you definitely don't get it. Some people are here enjoying the act of programming, and Cursor Tab is acting like an improvement on IntelliSense/autocomplete that actually knows what it's doing. Not all of us want to spend half an hour going back and forth with a robot about what it didn't do quite right when we can be in the actual code, tweak a couple lines, and press tab for it to replicate the change in the next 50 now it knows.

Agentic coding is fine, definitely helps me a lot with setup and boilerplate, but finer business logic details and UX changes are now it's strong suit especially if you know WHAT you want but not HOW to explain it in a clear enough format that it can do it without additional prompting.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by sarmasamosarma »

christophilus wrote: post #302
i_have_an_idea wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is a paid comment, in the sense that it's probably a bot. 22 day old account, with 1 post, praising Claude. For more than a year, Anthropic has engaged in an extensive guerrilla marketing effort on Reddit and similar developer-oriented platforms, aiming to persuade users that Claude significantly outperforms competitors in programming tasks, even though nearly all benchmarks indicate otherwise.

Well, I’m not a paid comment, and I agree 100% with the op, and have the exact same experience. I haven’t touched Cursor since paying for Claude Code (max or whatever the $100/mo plan is). That said, I never found Cursor very useful. Claude Code was useful out of the gate, so my experience may not be typical.

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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by artursapek »

Aeolun wrote: post #47
nojs wrote: post #44

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It’s more of a ticking time bomb because it relies so heavily on upstream model providers who all have competing products, particularly Claude Code.

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.

The $17 Claude pro sub has access to Claude Code now, at a fixed cost. Cursor also hits limits. I spent $350 on Cursor overage in like a week.
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