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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by goosejuice »

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

Cursor tab is remarkable. There's a lot of competition for agents but I don't think any other product comes close to their tab completion. Admittedly it might be rather useless in the near future with how things are going though.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by grub5000 »

adastra22 wrote: post #147
SkyPuncher wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a cursor rule that tells it about directories. Basically just X is UI, Y is BE, Z is auth. Keep it short. It's enough for it to realize it needs to navigate directories.

Does cursor ever read your rules? It is constantly ignoring very clear directives in my .cursorrules file.

Have you upgraded to the new .mdc file format? I didn't get around to .cursorrules before this format came out, but I'm finding .mdc is reliable if configured well (e.g. with the right file extensions)

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by ashleynewman »

Lots of comments here are so unrelated to the release, just people complaining about how they don’t like cursor because it’s a fork of VSCode…

I’m particularly interested in the release of BugBot. The docs mention it looks at diffs but I hope it’s also scanning through the repository and utilizing full context. Requesting copilot to do a review does the same thing but because it’s only looking at diffs the feedback it provides is pretty useless, mainly just things that a linter could catch.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by mythz »

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

Yep it's off to a great start with its early mover advantage but IMO their days on top are numbered with every major player behind the premier coding models (and major IDE vendors) iterating hard on their own integrated AI coding agents, after which I suspect Cursor's choice for using a proprietary IDE is going to look dated.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by laserlight »

goosejuice wrote: post #379
topaz0 wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That sum is ridiculous, but not everyone is only programming for bigcorp. I've had Cursor Pro for something like 3 years on my own dime. So yes hundreds of hundreds of dollars.

> I've had Cursor Pro for something like 3 years

How do you own Cursor for 3 years, when even ChatGPT is not that old? The earliest Cursor submission to HN was on October 15, 2023 --- not even 2 years old [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by i_have_an_idea »

zarzavat wrote: post #340
sixhobbits wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I believe that's talking about general insinuations, e.g. "you're just a russiabot" and the like. The GP account above with only one comment that is singing the praises of a particular product is obviously fake. They even let the account age a bit so that wouldn't show up as a green account.

The most alarming to me thing is that it seems to be happening at scale. This is one of dozens similar posts I've seen all over the programming communities with similar characteristics (high praise, new-ish accounts, little if any other activity).

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by artursapek »

Oreb wrote: post #361
artursapek wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? If you charge $50/hr and it saves you even just two hours a month, it’s a profitable trade.

That “if” doesn’t apply to all of us, though. Not everybody is paid by the hour. I’d love to try something like Claude code, but $100 per month is way too expensive for me, and it probably wouldn’t even give me a single extra dollar of income. I think I’ll just wait for the time when local LLMs will be good enough to be a viable alternative.

I'm not paid by the hour, it's just basic math on what my time is worth

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by i_have_an_idea »

tuesdaynight wrote: post #334

I trust that Claude Code is good, and I believe that most people commenting here are truthful to their experiences. However, I have a strange feeling that companies are using bots on these announcements comments. Maybe I'm being overcautious, but one of the worst things (for me) that came from the AI rush of these past years is this feeling that everything is full of bots. I know that people have preferences, but I f…

Sadly, I don't think this astroturfing is limited to announcement threads. It seems it is becoming increasingly hard to source real human opinions online, even on specialized forums like this or Reddit communities.

I hope that I am wrong, but, if I am not, then these companies are doing real and substantial damage to the internet. The loss of trust will be very hard to undo.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by bastawhiz »

brutuscat wrote: post #262
jameslk wrote: post #98

Cursor wishlist item for any PM listening: When reviewing the changes made from agent mode, I don’t know why the model made the change or whether the model even made the change versus a tool call making the change. It’s a pain to go fish out the reason from a long response the model gives in the chat. Example: I recently asked a model to set up shadcn for a project, but while trying to debug why things looked pretty…

Ah! You are asking for version control system? It’s called git!

They're asking for a feature to show context on why a bit of diff was created before saving the changes to the disk.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by deadbabe »

Oreb wrote: post #361
artursapek wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? If you charge $50/hr and it saves you even just two hours a month, it’s a profitable trade.

That “if” doesn’t apply to all of us, though. Not everybody is paid by the hour. I’d love to try something like Claude code, but $100 per month is way too expensive for me, and it probably wouldn’t even give me a single extra dollar of income. I think I’ll just wait for the time when local LLMs will be good enough to be a viable alternative.

By the time you can run good enough local LLMs without splurging on sufficiently powerful hardware, those LLMs will look like toys compared to whatever cloud based LLMs are available.
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