Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Cursor 1.0

cursor.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

441–450 of 492 posts

Re: Cursor 1.0

#441

Post by ukuina »

sfmike wrote: post #223
ukuina wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so much time is spend waiting for the request to complete (while I work on another part of the app in a different workspace with Cursor). You can open up to three parallel chat tabs by pressing Cmd+T https://docs.cursor.com/kbd Each chat tab is a full Agent by itself!

This won't create race conditions all of them will know the others live accept of commit to directory? or have to wait then hit enter on other tab instantly after?

They handle file locking by themselves. "File1 is currently awaiting edit approval, accept its changes and continue here?"

Re: Cursor 1.0

#442

Post by toephu2 »

ai_assisted_dev wrote: post #116

I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. I spend so much time inside cursor, that I am spending 10-20$ per day on additional requests. Now if I connect model provider APIs to windsurf, I'd be spending upwards of 100$ due to amount of tokens I use through the API per day. And if I connect my own API key to Cursor, I immediately get rate limited for any request, because I go well above 50 per min…

Google's Jules supposedly can handle that: "An Asynchronous Coding Agent" https://jules.google/

Re: Cursor 1.0

#443

Post by goosejuice »

laserlight wrote: post #395
goosejuice wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Pro since Aug '23 based on my invoices. Sorry, dang can update my wildly wrong timeline if wished :). Not sure when my account was created but feels like forever.

And no I'm not a bot but feel as you wish.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#444

Post by abe_m »

miroljub wrote: post #310
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…

Honestly, once you try aider, no other AI coding tool can reach that level of productivity. What's the best about it, it's open source, costs nothing, and is much more flexible than any other tools. You can use any model you want, either combine different models from different vendors for different tasks. Currently, I use it with deepseek-r1-0528 for /architect and deepseek-v3-0325 for /code mode. It's better than Cl…

Where are you running those models? I'd like to try aider with alternate models, but they seem so much slower than Claude API.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#445

Post by goosejuice »

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote: post #406
laserlight wrote: post #395

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Not accusing anyone of anything, but this thread feels filled with automated marketing from all over the place.

I've left plenty of criticism on the cursor forums. Do you honestly believe they'd engage in such practices though? That seems highly unlikely to me.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#446

Post by xandrius »

dimal wrote: post #407
ramoz wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think about this daily. More devs are starting to pick up on Claude Code. The initial “not an IDE!” scare is usually diminished within the initial session. I don’t think the future of agentic software development is in an IDE. Claude Code gives me power to orchestrate - the UX has nothing to do with terminal; it just turns out an agent that lives on the OS and in the filesystem is a powerful thing. Anthropic can an…

How are people using Claude Code day to day without spending a lot? I tried it on a moderately complex task and it chewed through tokens at an alarming rate. I quickly spent $2 and hadn’t even arrived at an adequate solution yet. I’ve heard other people say they’ve spent $10-20 in a coding session. I don’t see how that’s sustainable for me, so I’ve stuck with my $20/month Cursor subscription.

Normally to make a new smallish feature it costs me about $0.40.

The core suggestion is to point specifically at the files you want it to read and use as a reference, otherwise it might go read some huge file for no reason. Also the tokens used depend on the size of the project.

Generally, if I'm doing something I can box, I'd use chatgpt and copy it in myself. If I want something matching the style, I'd use a guided Roo Code.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#447

Post by wussboy »

h1fra wrote: post #204
ai_assisted_dev wrote: post #116

I still don't understand how cursor is making any money at all. I spend so much time inside cursor, that I am spending 10-20$ per day on additional requests. Now if I connect model provider APIs to windsurf, I'd be spending upwards of 100$ due to amount of tokens I use through the API per day. And if I connect my own API key to Cursor, I immediately get rate limited for any request, because I go well above 50 per min…

they say they are making hundreds of millions, but they never say how much of it is going to GPU cost. If I had to guess, they are burning everything and far from being profitable

If history has taught us anything, it's that unless full accounting data is released, there is a reason that full accounting data is not being released, and that reason would almost certainly paint the company in a bad light.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#448

Post by goosejuice »

coolKid721 wrote: post #419
goosejuice wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone pulling that a month not working for themselves doesn't have to think about the cost. That kind of salary is paid by corps with strict privacy policies. Unless you do nothing else with your time I'm not sure how you'd utilize the $100/mo plan fully.

the pricing is for token usage in 5/hr windows not monthly caps. if you use it intensely a couple times a month within a 5hr window it's not hard to hit the cap and want to upgrade. Personally I just work on some side projects during work on another monitor and just every half an hour so throw something at it and that's been very valuable for me.

225 messages every 5 hours? You hit that on the side while you're doing your day job? I suppose if you push all work to Claude and do nothing else all day it could be a concern but I don't think it would be a very effective way to work in it's current state unless you want to be left with a giant mess.

I admit their transparency around limits is a bit questionable. Why don't they just list out the tokens and remaining time?

Re: Cursor 1.0

#449

Post by coolKid721 »

goosejuice wrote: post #448
coolKid721 wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the pricing is for token usage in 5/hr windows not monthly caps. if you use it intensely a couple times a month within a 5hr window it's not hard to hit the cap and want to upgrade. Personally I just work on some side projects during work on another monitor and just every half an hour so throw something at it and that's been very valuable for me.

225 messages every 5 hours? You hit that on the side while you're doing your day job? I suppose if you push all work to Claude and do nothing else all day it could be a concern but I don't think it would be a very effective way to work in it's current state unless you want to be left with a giant mess. I admit their transparency around limits is a bit questionable. Why don't they just list out the tokens and remainin…

Yeah I hit it again today, refactoring can use a ton. It did make a bit of a mess but planning it out making sure everything is tested and having it run through checking the tests making sure they all still pass uses lots of tokens but passively doing that while I'm working is way faster than doing it manually.

Sometimes I'll just experiment with weird stuff and end up reverting it or delete it afterword's. Also fun to build really nice data visualizations for data I'm working with.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#450

Post by SkyPuncher »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A bit.

Last time I tried, it didn't support RubyMine (whomp)

Post reply on HN