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Yeah it's crazy to me you can't just 10x your price to 10x your usage (since you could kind of do this manually by creating more accounts). I would easily pay $

by extr 2y ago

Yeah it's crazy to me you can't just 10x your price to 10x your usage (since you could kind of do this manually by creating more accounts). I would easily pay $200/month for 10x usage - especially now with MCP servers where Claude Desktop + vanilla VS Code is arguably more effective than Cursor/Windsurf.

dennisy 2y ago
Oh very intriguing! Could you please elaborate how you are using MCP servers with VS code for coding?
- rahimnathwani 2y ago
  Just use the Filesystem MCP Server, and give it access to the repo you're working on: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr... This way you will still be in control of commits and pushes. So far I've used this to understand parts of a code base, and to make edits to a folder of markdown files.
  - trees101 2y ago
    how is that better than AI Coding tools? They do more sophisticated things such as creating compressed representations of the code that fit better into the context window. E.g https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html. Also they can use multiple models for different tasks, Cursor does this, so can Aider: https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html
    - rahimnathwani 2y ago
      I answered a comment asking how to do it. I didn't say it was better!
      - trees101 2y ago
        fair point
    - extr 2y ago
      I have never found embeddings to be that helpful, or context beyond 30-50K tokens to be used well by the models. I think I get better results by providing only the context I know for sure is relevant, and explaining why I'm providing it. Perhaps if you have a bunch of boilerplate documentation that you need to pattern-match on it can be helpful, but generally I try to only give the models tasks that can be contextualized by < 15-20 medium code files or pages of documentation.
- extr 2y ago
  Personally I'm using the Filesystem server along with the mcp server called wcgw[0] that provides a FileEdit action. I use MacWhisper[1] to dictate. I use `tree` to give Claude a map of the directory I'm interested in editing. I usually opt to run terminal commands myself for better control though wcgw does that too. I keep the repo open in a Cursor/Windsurf window for other edits I need. But other than that I basically just tell the model what I want to do and it does it, lol. I like the Claude Desktop App interface better than trying to do things in Cursor/Windsurf directly, I like the ability to organize prompts/conversations in terms of projects and easily include context. I also honestly just have a funny feeling that the Claude web app often performs better than the API responses I get from the IDEs. [0] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw [1] https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

by extr 2y ago

dennisy 2y ago

Oh very intriguing! Could you please elaborate how you are using MCP servers with VS code for coding?

rahimnathwani 2y ago
Just use the Filesystem MCP Server, and give it access to the repo you're working on: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr... This way you will still be in control of commits and pushes. So far I've used this to understand parts of a code base, and to make edits to a folder of markdown files.
- trees101 2y ago
  how is that better than AI Coding tools? They do more sophisticated things such as creating compressed representations of the code that fit better into the context window. E.g https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html. Also they can use multiple models for different tasks, Cursor does this, so can Aider: https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html
  - rahimnathwani 2y ago
    I answered a comment asking how to do it. I didn't say it was better!
    - trees101 2y ago
      fair point
  - extr 2y ago
    I have never found embeddings to be that helpful, or context beyond 30-50K tokens to be used well by the models. I think I get better results by providing only the context I know for sure is relevant, and explaining why I'm providing it. Perhaps if you have a bunch of boilerplate documentation that you need to pattern-match on it can be helpful, but generally I try to only give the models tasks that can be contextualized by < 15-20 medium code files or pages of documentation.
extr 2y ago
Personally I'm using the Filesystem server along with the mcp server called wcgw[0] that provides a FileEdit action. I use MacWhisper[1] to dictate. I use `tree` to give Claude a map of the directory I'm interested in editing. I usually opt to run terminal commands myself for better control though wcgw does that too. I keep the repo open in a Cursor/Windsurf window for other edits I need. But other than that I basically just tell the model what I want to do and it does it, lol. I like the Claude Desktop App interface better than trying to do things in Cursor/Windsurf directly, I like the ability to organize prompts/conversations in terms of projects and easily include context. I also honestly just have a funny feeling that the Claude web app often performs better than the API responses I get from the IDEs. [0] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw [1] https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper