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Re: Cursor 3

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I am a developer by profession and this is the opposite of what I would want. The code is your ground truth. If all else fails, the code should reasonably be able to tell you why, and by being able to read it, it makes me independent from some closed model.

"I have never woodworked a day in my life, with Claude Carpenter I don't have to touch the work at all and can just vaguely ask for things and pray that it does something useful."

Re: Cursor 3

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The comment itself looks/feels very AI influenced (if not entirely written by AI). Actually, since an hour ago (when this account first started posting), all comments from this account have that look/feel.

Re: Cursor 3

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I've mostly switched to claude code ( using the intellij plugin ) since I like the functionality of claude code more. But I will say the one thing i miss is the tab autocomplete cursor has. It looks like they're mostly going in the direction of agentic development though with this which unfortunately doesn't interest me as much but maybe I'm missing out? I've seen a few people tout the power of using multiple agentic models on different git worktrees.

Re: Cursor 3

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post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a developer by profession and this is the opposite of what I would want. The code is your ground truth. If all else fails, the code should reasonably be able to tell you why, and by being able to read it, it makes me independent from some closed model.

"I have never woodworked a day in my life, with Claude Carpenter I don't have to touch the work at all and can just vaguely ask for things and pray that it does something useful."

I mean claude carpenter sounds pretty sick

Re: Cursor 3

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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.

Why is it that every legitimate concern or downside pointed out about AI is met with the same tired, low signal, rebuttal of FOMO.

It's become the "no u r" argument of the AI age... :/

Re: Cursor 3

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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 use Zed. Much less user hostile.

I wanted to like zed, but then I discovered it is limited to one concurrent agent tab and that is a dealbreaker..

Re: Cursor 3

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I find a lot of these IDEs are simply not as useful as a CLI. When I'm running a full agentic workflow, I don't really need to see the contents of the files at all time, I'd actually say I often don't need to at all, because I can't really understand 10k lines of code per hour.

On the face of it, "10k lines of code per hour" sounds like a ridiculous metric to the point of parody.

Saying how many lines of code you can write this way is also a bit like bragging that you are building world's heaviest airplane.

Re: Cursor 3

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post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I have never woodworked a day in my life, with Claude Carpenter I don't have to touch the work at all and can just vaguely ask for things and pray that it does something useful."

I mean claude carpenter sounds pretty sick

Until it builds a stairway which leads to an attic in such a way that the access is under the shallowest part of the roof and unusable.

I've tried using the 3D generation stuff a bit, but it never worked out.

Still amazed that folks such as:

https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/1adcw41/i_am_comp...

manage to get anything usable in 3D at all, but making an STL is a big difference from making a useful architectural structure.

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