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As an ex-Cursor user myself, is there any reason that you’re still using it? Genuinely curious.
That tab autocomplete and predicting what I'm going to edit next is the best I've found. The rest I can take or leave (plenty of good or better alternatives)
I've been playing with Claude Code the past few days. It is very energetic and maybe will help me get over the hump on some long-standing difficult problems, but it loses focus quickly. Despite explicit directions in CLAUDE.md to build with "make -j8" and run unit tests with "make -j8 check", I see it sometimes running make without -j or calling the test executable directly. I would like to limit it to doing certain…
For the `-j` issue specifically, exporting `MAKEFLAGS=-j8` should work.
Claude Code has basically grown to dominate my initial coding workflow. I was using the API and passed $50 easily, so I upgraded to the $100 a month plan and have already reached $100 in usage. I've been working on a large project, with 3 different repos (frontend, backend, legacy backend) and I just have all 3 of them in one directory now with claude code. Wrote some quick instructions about how it was setup, its wo…
As an aside, people say AI will eliminate coding jobs, but then who will configure these hooks? Or think about adding such a feature? These kinds of tooling and related work will still be there unless AI evolves to the point that it even thinks of this and announces this to all other AI entities and they also implement it properly etc.
To misuse a woodworking metaphor, I think we’re experiencing a shift from hand tools to power tools. You still need someone who understands the basics to get the good results out of the tools, but they’re not chiseling fine furniture by hand anymore, they’re throwing heaps of wood through the tablesaw instead. More productive, but more likely to lose a finger if you’re not careful.
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As an ex-Cursor user myself, is there any reason that you’re still using it? Genuinely curious.
I've been using cursor for last 1 year but haven't tried Claude Code, Do you think it has gotten better?
This closes a big feature gap. One thing that may not be obvious is that because of the way Claude Code generates commits, regular Git hooks won’t work. (At least, in most configurations.) We’ve been using CLAUDE.md instructions to tell Claude to auto-format code with the Qlty CLI ( https://github.com/qltysh/qlty ) but Claude a bit hit and miss in following them. The determinism here is a win. It looks like the event…
As an aside, people say AI will eliminate coding jobs, but then who will configure these hooks? Or think about adding such a feature? These kinds of tooling and related work will still be there unless AI evolves to the point that it even thinks of this and announces this to all other AI entities and they also implement it properly etc.
To misuse a woodworking metaphor, I think we’re experiencing a shift from hand tools to power tools. You still need someone who understands the basics to get the good results out of the tools, but they’re not chiseling fine furniture by hand anymore, they’re throwing heaps of wood through the tablesaw instead. More productive, but more likely to lose a finger if you’re not careful.
People go to museums to admire old hand-carved furniture and travel to cities to admire the architecture of centuries past made with hand-chiseled blocks. While power tools do let people make things of equal quality faster, they're instead generally used to make things of worse quality much, much faster and the field has gone from being a craft to simply being an assembly line job. As bad as software is today, we're likely to hit even deeper lows and people will miss the days where Electron apps are good compared to what's yet to come.
There's already been one step in this direction with the Cambrian extinction of 90s/early 2000s software. People still talk about how soulful Winamp/old Windows Media Player/ZSNES/etc were.
Amazing how there's whole companies dedicated to this and yet claude code keeps leading the way.
For that reason, I mainly use Aider and Cursor (the latter mostly in the "give me five lines" comment mode).
I've been playing with Claude Code the past few days. It is very energetic and maybe will help me get over the hump on some long-standing difficult problems, but it loses focus quickly. Despite explicit directions in CLAUDE.md to build with "make -j8" and run unit tests with "make -j8 check", I see it sometimes running make without -j or calling the test executable directly. I would like to limit it to doing certain…
For the `-j` issue specifically, exporting `MAKEFLAGS=-j8` should work.
As an aside, people say AI will eliminate coding jobs, but then who will configure these hooks? Or think about adding such a feature? These kinds of tooling and related work will still be there unless AI evolves to the point that it even thinks of this and announces this to all other AI entities and they also implement it properly etc.