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But if it's truly better (as in the content and the result being better), then copying and pasting is not the most important thing. I used Claude the other day by just copying and pasting and that worked just fine.

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It cannot be better because Cursor looks across files, whereas with grok you'd be giving it a single one. Grok won't have any context about the rest of your repo, which makes it only useful for toy examples.

What's stopping you at pasting only a single file? I use the workflow Elon suggests (although I've never used it with Grok) predominately, it's well over 30% of my use of LLMs. I have a small piece of python called "crawlxml" that filters + dumps into <file> tags. And of course the LLM doesn't need your actual code in its context to do its job.

There's no way I'm going to go through my repo dependency tree and paste twenty files into grok one by one.

well, your loss then. clearly your work steps aren’t big enough to benefit from SoA LLM

My work steps are too big to sit around pasting my repo into a text box every time I have a task. This is why integrated IDEs are taking off.

I'm invested in the JetBrains ecosystem though. I tried Junie but it crashed so I'm putting that on pause for now. Maybe there is a Claude plugin that looks across files, not sure.

Any experiences from HN'ers using JetBrains IDE's like IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion etc?

Update: Tried Claude using AI Assistant now in JetBrains and it works great

Claude code is much better than cursor + sonnet in my opinion, even without the good ide integration

Can you explain why? I like how I can select chunks of code for context and hit cmd-L (or K) to immediate trigger a change. And the tab autocomplete is amazing.

its ability to understand tasks and execute them in a way that works without having it try again over and over 10x

You just have to use Claude Code for a few days and it will be obvious. Cursor may as well go out of business to me and I really loved it a few weeks ago.

Once you figure out the work flow, Claude Code is just insane.

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