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Cursor is incredible. You can use whatever model you like. Give it your openAI key if you want o1-preview. Using it with Claude Sonnet is usually enough though.

Cursor is incredible. You can use whatever model you like. Give it your openAI key if you want o1-preview. Using it with Claude Sonnet is usually enough though. I use it everyday and it makes it possible to work between dependencies and it can create and edit files on the fly -- pending your approval of git-vibe diffs it presents to you. I've been programming 19 years and it's honestly a life-changer.

andix 2y ago
Is cursors performance different to aider?
- padolsey 2y ago
  Cursor is a fully fledged fork of VSCode so IMHO it's in a different ballpark to Aider/Claude-Engineer/etc. Its LLM assistance is baked in to the IDE. Feels really comfortable. I switched over from SublimeText after a decade.
  - wellthisisgreat 2y ago
    Wow you got me with Sublime
  - andix 2y ago
    Okay, but is the code it creates any better?
- Alifatisk 2y ago
  It feels more responsive compared to vscode, but I cannot say that is the case.
prophesi 2y ago
I would switch to Cursor if you could bring your own keys. Products with LLM's these days are costly subscriptions to cover running OpenAI / Anthropic inferences when they could instead give the option for the end user to take on that cost themselves, and from there I can check my own OpenAI / Anthropic console to see if it's worth it.
dtquad 2y ago
>Give it your openAI key if you want o1-preview. o1 sounds slow and expensive for the usual AI conversational coding and autocomplete stuff. But it might be the right model for scaffolding of new projects and do non-trivial refactoring s of existing projects. Does Cursor support setting different models for different tasks?
elpocko 2y ago
They took open source code and made a closed source, subscription-only product from it with no support for open/free/self-hosted models. No thanks, I'm not gonna support that.
- padolsey 2y ago
  Umm it does have support for open/free/self-hosted models through either openrouter or by changing the oai endpoint (as long as you've got an openai compatible endpoint which is usually the case).
- Alifatisk 2y ago
  But vscode isn't open-source? It's open-core I believe. I remember trying vscodium but not everything was there that I had on vscode, and that mainly stem from extensions relying on the proprietary parts of vscode.
  - elpocko 2y ago
    https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
    - Alifatisk 2y ago
      MIT license makes it open-source? As far as I know, you can't get vscode up and running from that repo. It requires some proprietary parts too. Even the language server is proprietary, though the protocol is open. I think open-core is better label.
      - elpocko 2y ago
        Yes, an open source license makes a project open source. Cursor took the code and modified it for their product, so it's at least open enough to be able to do that.
        2y ago
joshstrange 2y ago
Custom IDE is a non-starter.

andix 2y ago

Is cursors performance different to aider?

padolsey 2y ago
Cursor is a fully fledged fork of VSCode so IMHO it's in a different ballpark to Aider/Claude-Engineer/etc. Its LLM assistance is baked in to the IDE. Feels really comfortable. I switched over from SublimeText after a decade.
- wellthisisgreat 2y ago
  Wow you got me with Sublime
- andix 2y ago
  Okay, but is the code it creates any better?
Alifatisk 2y ago
It feels more responsive compared to vscode, but I cannot say that is the case.

prophesi 2y ago

I would switch to Cursor if you could bring your own keys. Products with LLM's these days are costly subscriptions to cover running OpenAI / Anthropic inferences when they could instead give the option for the end user to take on that cost themselves, and from there I can check my own OpenAI / Anthropic console to see if it's worth it.

dtquad 2y ago

>Give it your openAI key if you want o1-preview. o1 sounds slow and expensive for the usual AI conversational coding and autocomplete stuff. But it might be the right model for scaffolding of new projects and do non-trivial refactoring s of existing projects. Does Cursor support setting different models for different tasks?

elpocko 2y ago

They took open source code and made a closed source, subscription-only product from it with no support for open/free/self-hosted models. No thanks, I'm not gonna support that.

padolsey 2y ago
Umm it does have support for open/free/self-hosted models through either openrouter or by changing the oai endpoint (as long as you've got an openai compatible endpoint which is usually the case).
Alifatisk 2y ago
But vscode isn't open-source? It's open-core I believe. I remember trying vscodium but not everything was there that I had on vscode, and that mainly stem from extensions relying on the proprietary parts of vscode.
- elpocko 2y ago
  https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
  - Alifatisk 2y ago
    MIT license makes it open-source? As far as I know, you can't get vscode up and running from that repo. It requires some proprietary parts too. Even the language server is proprietary, though the protocol is open. I think open-core is better label.
    - elpocko 2y ago
      Yes, an open source license makes a project open source. Cursor took the code and modified it for their product, so it's at least open enough to be able to do that.
      - 2y ago

joshstrange 2y ago

Custom IDE is a non-starter.