In Cursor I look at the code diff for my own satisfaction and understanding. I've been able to auto-accept all changes pretty reliably all last year.

So much so that i've yet to invest in CC. Finally downloaded the desktop app but use it exclusively for chat and cowork.

Cursor's purgatory UX is what'll finally get me to invest in CC and codex. Not model performance.

I do think there's a caveat that it's pretty standard nextjs with rails api.

edit: found your blog post about your experience, i'll read it! https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/

edit2: maybe it's because i spend a lot of time being clear with small and surgical asks after doing purely thought exploring prompts to confirm and home in on approaches. At the point I hit build or do Agent mode, Composer is mostly always spot on.

with Opus (haven't tried) maybe people are doing large-scale multi phase and single shot prompts that trigger a swarm of sub agents?