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Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Re: Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Post by gbourne1 »

I love and hate this feature. I use it all the time with Claude, and find it super useful. At the same time I wish it didn’t exist so I was unable to continue to do work away from my computer. Kinda like the days before mobile phone and when you left the office work mostly ended.

Re: Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Post by smalltorch »

This seems like a recipe for bad code I dunno. How would someone using this app test as they go?

Agentic coding sorta works for me because you can stop and test each iteration and pinpoint where something has gone wrong.

Example: I ask for a tweak, it give me 20 lines, I test for the intended behavior and keep working on those 20 lines until I'm happy with the reliability/effects of it.

But that loop itself requires a environment in which the final product will be running and takes up most the time in my expirence.

Re: Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Post by sambcui »

gbourne1 wrote: post #4

I love and hate this feature. I use it all the time with Claude, and find it super useful. At the same time I wish it didn’t exist so I was unable to continue to do work away from my computer. Kinda like the days before mobile phone and when you left the office work mostly ended.

I feel you. For me, AI models are like the new TikTok. It's productive, but also toxic to my mental health.

Re: Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Post by guywithahat »

smalltorch wrote: post #5

This seems like a recipe for bad code I dunno. How would someone using this app test as they go? Agentic coding sorta works for me because you can stop and test each iteration and pinpoint where something has gone wrong. Example: I ask for a tweak, it give me 20 lines, I test for the intended behavior and keep working on those 20 lines until I'm happy with the reliability/effects of it. But that loop itself requires…

Maybe not for maintainable production code but I've definitely built apps/games for friends and this kind of thing would come in handy. I leave for work, I think of something I want to do, and this way I could just text the agent to do it.

There's also a lot to be said about planning modes which don't write anything, but rather just generate text files to be implemented later when I can watch over the repo more closely.

Re: Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

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Post by Schiendelman »

smalltorch wrote: post #5

This seems like a recipe for bad code I dunno. How would someone using this app test as they go? Agentic coding sorta works for me because you can stop and test each iteration and pinpoint where something has gone wrong. Example: I ask for a tweak, it give me 20 lines, I test for the intended behavior and keep working on those 20 lines until I'm happy with the reliability/effects of it. But that loop itself requires…

What model are you using? I can use Claude Code's remote control on Opus 4.8, have it implement a meaty feature, talk through edge cases, ask it to posit potential interactions we want to be careful of, have it write a plan and expand tests for surrounding areas, ask it to implement, ship that increment to testflight, then experiment with it on my phone - without being at home. My only limitation is that I like to clear context between ships, and that's tough to do using remote control.
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