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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by neuzhou »

dirtbag__dad wrote: post #266
nu11ptr wrote: post #91

I've been running Claude Code in my Cursor IDE for a while now via extension. I like the setup, and I direct Claude on one task at a time, while still having full access to my code (and nice completions via Cursor). I still spend time tweaking, etc. before committing. I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. I can barely keep straight my code working on…

This. I have effectively used multiple agents to do large refactors. I have not used them for greenfield development. How are folks leveraging the agentic swarm, and how are you managing code quality and governance? Does anyone know of a site that highlights code, features, or products produced by this type of development?

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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by vel0city »

wilkystyle wrote: post #103
fragmede wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. Good for you! 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 is peak opposite of flow state, so I've eagerly adopted agents (how much free will I had in that decision is for philosophers to decide) so ther…

I have personally found that I cannot context switch between thinking deeply about two separate problems and workstreams without a significant cognitive context-switching cost. If it's context-switching between things that don't require super-deep thought, it's definitely doable, but I'm still way more mentally burnt-out after an hour or two of essentially speed-running review of small PRs from a bunch of different s…

How does one work with a team of developers to solve larger problems? You break down the problems into digestible chunks and have each teammate tackle a stack of those tasks.

Its far closer to being a project manager than it is being a solo developer.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by thefourthchime »

athoscouto wrote: post #246

Cursor has been my main AI tool for over a year now. I've been trying to use Claude Code seriously for over a month, but every time I do it, I get the impression that it would take me less work to do with Cursor. I'm on the enterprise plan, so it can get pricey. This is why I used to stick mostly to auto mode. Now Composer 2 has taken over as my default model. It is not as intelligent as OpenAI's or Anthropic's flags…

The workflow that got me into Cloud Code was instructing it that whenever I create a new feature or bug, it should make a new git worktree. And then when I'm done, merge that back to main and delete the worktree. That enables me to open up three plus different Cloud Code's and work on three different things at the same time. As long as they're not directly overlapping, it works great.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by vips7L »

signatoremo wrote: post #359
vips7L wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re not experts.

Sensitive but uninformed. Expert is a common AI concept, going back for decades. It wasn’t invented with LLM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

That’s totally what they were talking about.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by anon0834 »

I upgraded from cursor 2 to cursor 3 and the quality of generated code and the ability to follow instructions has dropped massively :(

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by Rover222 »

nu11ptr wrote: post #91

I've been running Claude Code in my Cursor IDE for a while now via extension. I like the setup, and I direct Claude on one task at a time, while still having full access to my code (and nice completions via Cursor). I still spend time tweaking, etc. before committing. I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. I can barely keep straight my code working on…

This flow feels so slow after switching to Conductor and running X number of tasks in separate git workspaces concurrently

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by ifightcrime »

nu11ptr wrote: post #91

I've been running Claude Code in my Cursor IDE for a while now via extension. I like the setup, and I direct Claude on one task at a time, while still having full access to my code (and nice completions via Cursor). I still spend time tweaking, etc. before committing. I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. I can barely keep straight my code working on…

You are falling behind if you're not pushing yourself to learn and get better orchestrating multiple agents.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by frabia »

Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #369
frabia wrote: post #325

Unfortunately, I think Cursor is making progressively more difficult to use other AI provider via extension, mostly due to the fact that they are reserving the secondary sidebar for their own chat interface. This makes it super unpractical to use the Codex and Claude extension, as now they all need to share the primary sidebar. (Before it was not optimal, but it was at least possible.) As many have pointed out, the c…

I mean it makes sense for them to be somewhat antagonistic towards these flows because every time you use a different agentic extension or tool inside of Cursor, Cursor loses your money and data. They're also churning with enterprise customers because for lots of customers on next contract renewal their pricing is increasing like 4-8x (depending on usage patterns but this was what we calculated for most of our devs)…

yeah good point. I think this is to be seen though. Right now AI tokens, especially via OpenAI/Anthropic subscriptions, are heavily subsidized. If token cost between the API and subscriptions should even out though, then I think Cursor might well be back in the race.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by dmix »

mstaoru wrote: post #351

I echo the others' sentiments that I still strongly prefer to write code mostly manually, assisted by Tab completions, and only generate piecewise via Cmd+K where I'm not sure about APIs or forgot the exact syntax. Chatting in Ask only mode about more complex problems. Maybe I'm not a 10x developer, I'm fine with that. Cursor shoving Agents down my throat made me abandon and cancel it once this year. I jumped around…

how did Cursor shove agents down your throat? Even in this new version it's basically just VSCode with an optional agent sidebar
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