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> The next big thing was Cursor. I must admit that I never personally fell in love with it, but given how many people I respect love it, I think that’s a me-problem

I've met so many engineers who have said exactly this. There are clearly some group of people obsessed with Cursor, but it's interesting to me how alien they seem to the majority of people using ai codegen right now.

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i had to uninstall it because it had associated itself with every possible file extension. i couldn't open a file without cursor popping up. very horrifying for that to happen to my computer when working on important projects

On Linux, I have the opposite issue. I ended up hard symlinking cursor to VS Code because Cursor wasn't opening despite being set as the default editor.

I uninstalled when I found out it overwrote "code" command in WSL2 Ubuntu without my consent.

"code" used to fire VS Code.

My rationale is: what else do they think they can get away with in my system?

VS Code Copilot Chat with #codebase in prompt has the edit mode which behaves similar to Cursor. Even more so with o1-preview selected.

I use it. It’s not a revolution, but it’s an upgrade over vscode+copilot. Only a matter of time until the two have feature parity, though.

I prefer vscode+copilot. It's much cheaper and has all the functionality I want. There's access to 3.5 sonnet, and it can edit/create up to 10 files at a time.

It’s just horribly slow though, using sonnet can often take 5 min to apply

deepseek is what you want. comparable quality to sonnet and by the fastest of the llms.

I'm pretty much full time on cursor from vscode. I don't trust it for big code blocks, but a control-k + reasonable command (I could have typed up myself) is saving me quite a bit of time.

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