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Comment by MuffinFlavored | Hacker News Reader

I think Claude Code is great, but I really grew accustomed to the "Cursor-tab tab tab" autocomplete style. A little perplexed why the Claude Code integration into VS Code doesn't add something like this? It would make it the perfect product to me. Surprised more people do not talk about this/it isn't a more commonly requested feature.

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"Cursor tab tab tab" is just nuts. I'm also getting accustomed to type carelessly, making syntax mistakes who cares if a tab can fix that. I fly with it. As per why more people dont talk about this, I have a the strong opinion that tools find success in the median of the market, not in the excellence. I think coders with a great autocomplete are a real deal. I find so boring and courtproductive chatting about a problem

Agree. I used Claude code a bit and enjoyed it but also felt like I was too disconnected to the changes, I guess too much vibe coding?

Cursor is a nice balance for me still. I am automating a lot of the writing but it’s still bite size pieces that feel easier to review.

With these agentic coders you can have better conversations about the code. My favorite use case with CC is after a day coding I can ask it to for a thorough review of the changes, a file, or even the whole project.. setting it to work when I go off to bed and have it ranking issues and even proposing a fix for the most important ones. If you get the prompt right and enable permissions it can work for quite a long time independently.

I just use Claude Code in Cursor's terminal (both a hotkey away, very convenient). For 2 months I don't use cursor chat, but tab autocomplete is to good, definitely worth 20$.

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