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Cursor isn’t very good. It aggressively limits context I assume to save money. Augment runs circles around it.

by evelant 1y ago

seunosewa 1y ago
Which models are available on Augment right now? Which do you use?
- evelant 1y ago
  https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-design-failure-not-a-feature https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-desi... Augment does not have a model picker. It uses Claude 3.7 right now. The context engine is the magic sauce. It’s miles ahead of all the other tools, almost always gets it right where others fail.
  - gaeb69 1y ago
    I haven't fully stress tested it, but from brief use their proprietary context engine just feels like a gimmick to draw in VC investments. You can't convince me you get better end performance using an older model. Especially as most AI coding tools draw closer to enshitification with opaque context compression to save on costs
    - evelant 1y ago
      YMMV, but I've found it really does work and isn't a gimmick. It gets problems right that Cursor, Roo, Windsurf, etc trip up on because somehow it finds exactly the relevant stuff for context at a granularity you can't really achieve by @mentioning whole files/directories in other tools. I'm going to enjoy it at least until something better comes along. I think the "relevant accurate context is better than just adding more context" approach is the way to go. I find the autocomplete model a lot better than cursor/copilot as well. IMO it does a much better job of understanding the intention of your changes and generating relevant changes across files. I think that's also due to the context engine, it checks for relevant changes to the task at hand across files rather than being mostly "local".
eddyg 1y ago
Do you have any relationship to/with Augment?
- Larrikin 1y ago
  His only posts are promoting it
- evelant 1y ago
  No I don’t. I just created an account for the first time. I just wanted to point out augment since nobody had mentioned it and it seemed relevant. Roo code is another very good alternative that’s better than cursor but it requires a bit more manual work to get good results. I’ve spent a lot of time trying out all of these tools, augment is the best one IMO but was also the last one I discovered. I figured sharing it here might spare others the searching and frustration I went through with cursor/windsurf/roo/pear/trae and so on.
  - eddyg 1y ago
    Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate the insight, as long as it's unbiased. (And I had not heard of Augment!)
lostmsu 1y ago
Also noticed it. It often forgets recent changes then proceeds to revert them without being asked to touch that part of code.

Cursor isn’t very good. It aggressively limits context I assume to save money. Augment runs circles around it.

seunosewa 1y ago

Which models are available on Augment right now? Which do you use?

evelant 1y ago
https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-design-failure-not-a-feature https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-desi... Augment does not have a model picker. It uses Claude 3.7 right now. The context engine is the magic sauce. It’s miles ahead of all the other tools, almost always gets it right where others fail.
- gaeb69 1y ago
  I haven't fully stress tested it, but from brief use their proprietary context engine just feels like a gimmick to draw in VC investments. You can't convince me you get better end performance using an older model. Especially as most AI coding tools draw closer to enshitification with opaque context compression to save on costs
  - evelant 1y ago
    YMMV, but I've found it really does work and isn't a gimmick. It gets problems right that Cursor, Roo, Windsurf, etc trip up on because somehow it finds exactly the relevant stuff for context at a granularity you can't really achieve by @mentioning whole files/directories in other tools. I'm going to enjoy it at least until something better comes along. I think the "relevant accurate context is better than just adding more context" approach is the way to go. I find the autocomplete model a lot better than cursor/copilot as well. IMO it does a much better job of understanding the intention of your changes and generating relevant changes across files. I think that's also due to the context engine, it checks for relevant changes to the task at hand across files rather than being mostly "local".

eddyg 1y ago

Do you have any relationship to/with Augment?

Larrikin 1y ago
His only posts are promoting it
evelant 1y ago
No I don’t. I just created an account for the first time. I just wanted to point out augment since nobody had mentioned it and it seemed relevant. Roo code is another very good alternative that’s better than cursor but it requires a bit more manual work to get good results. I’ve spent a lot of time trying out all of these tools, augment is the best one IMO but was also the last one I discovered. I figured sharing it here might spare others the searching and frustration I went through with cursor/windsurf/roo/pear/trae and so on.
- eddyg 1y ago
  Thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate the insight, as long as it's unbiased. (And I had not heard of Augment!)

lostmsu 1y ago

Also noticed it. It often forgets recent changes then proceeds to revert them without being asked to touch that part of code.