related: Cursor composer line of models is so good relative to cost. "auto" served me just fine until they recommended Composer and I've been continually happy with it. Then Claude Code with Opus dropped and everyone went bananas and I gotta say I just assumed I'm too casual to know how bad Cursor has been?

But then I think maybe not really? Granted, I'm not orchestrating 100 Agents doing overnight work. But relating this to your point, if the CC-camp + HN hadn't proclaimed otherwise, I would have no idea what breakthrough CC+Opus made. (Cursor was first with plan mode right?)

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operatingthetan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think Cursor was _that bad_ in it's time. But the 'psyop' here is that anyone is using an AI-IDE going forward at all. I see people who say they are still using them and are so excited, but then I talk to engineers I actually know and it's all CLI tools.

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gen220 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

FWIW, cursor (company) has a CLI tool/harness similar to Claude Code called agent.

It’s existed for a long time, is quite good, and it is under-marketed (ironic for this thread).

(Double-ironic disclosure… I work for Cursor. If you have ideas to make agent better hmu)

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majormajor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I don't think Cursor was _that bad_ in it's time. But the 'psyop' here is that anyone is using an AI-IDE going forward at all. I see people who say they are still using them and are so excited, but then I talk to engineers I actually know and it's all CLI tools.

This is just the old "surely nobody actually likes Lady Gaga, all the people I actually know think her stuff sucks, it's just all bought and paid for" reasoning trap all over again...

	▲	operatingthetan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You couldn't even keep your analogy straight. I didn't say the people I know said anything at all about Cursor. If someone is clear about offering an anecdote, it's dishonest to pretend as if they were making a real and reasoned argument.

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stavros 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I haven't used Cursor much lately, but with Opus/Codex I can program with very few bugs without having to look at any code at all, over months of working on the same codebase. I don't think any other model can do that, no?