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Post by nextos »

fhd2 wrote: post #140
nextos wrote: post #104

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I've found Emacs plus gptel very pleasant to use. And following the ethos of Emacs, it is backend agnostic and very malleable. Besides, if you want something inexpensive, using Gemini 2.0 Flash as a backend is completely free. Google provides an API key at no cost.

Ha, same. How do you use it? I tried all the fancy context management stuff multiple times, but I mostly just have a chat buffer open and copy paste stuff manually. Text wrangling is so damn efficient in Emacs. I pay around 10$ to Anthropic per month in API tokens for pretty heavy usage. With deliberate context management (I found keeping it small and focused vastly improves responses), cost is really not an issue. D…

> How do you use it?

I have a global bind for gptel-send (C-c g).

Then, in any buffer, I typically type C-u C-c g.

This lets me customize the prompt and lots of parameters, such as the context, before gptel-send is actually called.

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Post by citizenpaul »

dotancohen wrote: post #208
citizenpaul wrote: post #182

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The.global food market is so heavily subsidized that is almoat impossible that your dog food is not subsidized. Animal feed is even more subsidized.

Commercial animal feed is subsidized. So are some forms of human food in many countries. Pet food is not subsidized in my country nor the EU. If any countries do subsidize pet food, they are the exception. Maybe the US? Pet food is often manufactured from the waste of other processes, including the human food industry, but that is not a subsidiary.

I understand that it is not directly subsidized. However the sources it comes from while are the "waste" of a greater product. That greater product is heavily subsidized.

This also goes to a personal issue that why would you feed your pet a waste product. My dog gets food I cook for him just like myself. There are tons of crock pot recipes online for safe cheap high quality dog food.

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Post by kanwisher »

vladstudio wrote: post #387
cheema33 wrote: post #371

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You forgot to say what the primary benefit is. Because it lacks controls? I can see how some might consider that a plus.

Yes, something like that. As probably many of you, I spent way too much time switching between agentic apps, switching between models inside these apps, and tweaking system prompts for these models. When Ampcode took it all away from me, I found I enjoyed the actual AI-assisted coding much more than configuring. Of course, largely because it just worked. Granted, I had enough experience with other AI tools to manage…

I still have zero idea what this does, I went to website. I use cursor, and 5 llms. you need to really tighten your marketing message

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Post by steveklabnik »

Hyperboreanal wrote: post #120
steveklabnik wrote: post #87

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You might find this post interesting: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/claude-code-is-my-computer It… sure is something. I’m still thinking about if it’s horrible, visionary, or both.

Note: the text of that article itself is AI generated. > Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style.

Yes, the author (apparently) spent a lot of time with it.

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Post by aerhardt »

delbronski wrote: post #163

Anyone tried Junie from JetBrains? Im super happy with it. I’m not sure how it compares to other coding agents though.

I've been running a few experiments, the longest one has been creating a simulation app in Qt and Python.

It has showed promise, enough to quell my FOMO about other IDEs, since I am extremely happy with the Jetbrains suite otherwise.

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Post by scopendo »

brabel wrote: post #164
SkyPuncher wrote: post #122

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I just run two IDEs. Cursor is essentially only the wrapper for running agents. I still do my heavy lifting in Jetbrains products. It actually works out well because I can let Cursor iterate on a task while I review/tweak code.

Have you tried the Jetbrains agent, I think it’s called Jennie? I am trying it right now and it seems decent enough but I haven’t tried Cursor as I don’t really like vs code.

I tried previous iterations of JetBrain's AI without much love, but need to look at Junie.

Using Windsurf plugins in JB ides has been working for me, albeit not as powerful yet as the Windsurf VS Code fork.

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Post by rs186 »

techpression wrote: post #112
blixt wrote: post #108

I keep switching away from and back to Cursor (mainly due to frontier models explicitly fighting their apply model, the first few times it’s funny to see the LLM itself write “this is frustrating” but I digress). And every time I find it having diverged further from VSCode compatibility. This wouldn’t be so bad if it was an intentional design choice but it seems more that Microsoft is starting to push them out? Like…

I fully expect MS to change the VS Code license in the not so far future to make applications like Cursor not possible. Forking might be a thing initially but will quickly fade since without the backing of MS the ecosystem around it will die.

If you pay attention to VSCode changelog for the past few months, you'll notice that most of it is about Copilot.

It feels almost as if VSCode is not adding new features and is in maintenance mode for now. I have no idea if that's actually true, but if this continues, a fork will be easily maintainable.

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Post by Due_Winter_5330 »

sgt wrote: post #430
avinassh wrote: post #189

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this one - https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

It behaves weirdly. I opened a Python file in PyCharm and asked Junie: "Tell me about this file". It then proceeds to do about 15 LLM calls, then ends up with a "git diff" and then "Done" (the implementation is error-free). What's the value add here?

You need to use Ask mode rather than Code mode in Junie, there is a toggle

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Post by cmrx64 »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #427
cmrx64 wrote: post #252

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for me, I’ll keep doing work on the codebase in a separate vscode while Cursor’s agent is wiling away at it, so as to not be distracted or interrupted by the agent activity in the corner of my screen. and then i’ll have a claude or aistudio tab open doing bigger analysis or planning tasks, reading papers together, etc.

What would you say to somebody who doesn't trust Cursor to "take the reigns off" and go "agent mode" and do such large changes? Even with "checking/approving/having the final say" as a user, I feel there is time lost if the AI does not do the changes the right way/makes small pesky mistakes. Autocomplete: yes Asking questions: yes I know everybody is all into agent mode and it isn't a Cursor specific thing, I'm just…

I just accept that when I return to the Cursor window, it is going to have made some mistakes and I’m going to have to spend some time fixing things. I agree it’s a delicate balance, and sometimes it feels more like I’m exploring methods of steering the AI than I am doing anything about the code.

my usecases have been building relatively self-contained, well-specified components of distributed systems out of academic papers and my own design notes / prototype skeletons, in rust. there’s a lot of context for the agent to ground against, and it can blow out ideas into their implications relatively well ime.

the experience of fixing up lots of pesky mistakes that you yourself would never make is kinda annoying.

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