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Comments like this remind me how much of the ai/agentic ecosystem is based on people's personal vibes and emotions I've seen very little, meaningful difference

Comments like this remind me how much of the ai/agentic ecosystem is based on people's personal vibes and emotions I've seen very little, meaningful difference. They all have their quirks, things their good at / bad at. The underlying models are very similar as well

elashri 1y ago
I think the problem is that it can be a full time job on itself to try to test all of the available alternatives. The models and editors, cli tools that aims for "increasing developer productivity using LLMs" comes and goes much faster than most people can even track. I think what you are saying is true too but another angle is that people use these tools in different ways so they yield different results. Hell even the expectations are different. Someone prompting for some React components will much happier with Claude sonnet 4.5 than me. I do heavy GPU programming and scientific computing stuff where LLM will mostly give you hallucinating answers 80% of time.
- verdverm 1y ago
  full agreement, the "my choice is the best" discourse has become quite tiring, I feel the same way about the rust stan'n
warmedcookie 1y ago
Okay, I'll delve deeper. You're talking about one thing, the models, which Cursor has a bunch available to choose from. Yes, I agree practically no difference there in terms of what junk is being spit out. But code review is really important to me and nothing comes close to Cursor in regards to reviewing the code the LLM generates. I can keep the good parts, modify or throw out the bad parts. I can go back to a checkpoint easily when things get really bad. What solution comes even close to that? Cursor nails this really well. Claude code acolytes tell me to just use git commands. Yeah, no thanks. Vibe coding? Yes, no meaningful difference.
- verdverm 1y ago
  > nothing comes close to X you lost me here because this is based on your opinion and impressions, not data. How do you know nothing comes close? The PR experience you describe is available in several options and setups. Different strokes for different folks, your choice is not superior by any meaningful measure other than your own preferences
  - warmedcookie 1y ago
    I don't. I'm fishing for alternatives.
    - verdverm 1y ago
      There are better ways to ask for alternative options and experiences
- foldr 1y ago
  Cursor’s killer feature is that you can use it to edit diffs or restore a known good version? That is basic version control functionality. I understand what you’re referring to (I use Zed, which also has an interface for partially applying AI-generated code changes), but it’s very weird to me that this basic functionality would be considered some kind of competitive advantage.
  - hu3 1y ago
    same for VSCode Copilot. it's a basic feature at this point i guess people just don't try other tools often

elashri 1y ago

I think the problem is that it can be a full time job on itself to try to test all of the available alternatives. The models and editors, cli tools that aims for "increasing developer productivity using LLMs" comes and goes much faster than most people can even track. I think what you are saying is true too but another angle is that people use these tools in different ways so they yield different results. Hell even the expectations are different. Someone prompting for some React components will much happier with Claude sonnet 4.5 than me. I do heavy GPU programming and scientific computing stuff where LLM will mostly give you hallucinating answers 80% of time.

verdverm 1y ago
full agreement, the "my choice is the best" discourse has become quite tiring, I feel the same way about the rust stan'n

warmedcookie 1y ago

Okay, I'll delve deeper. You're talking about one thing, the models, which Cursor has a bunch available to choose from. Yes, I agree practically no difference there in terms of what junk is being spit out. But code review is really important to me and nothing comes close to Cursor in regards to reviewing the code the LLM generates. I can keep the good parts, modify or throw out the bad parts. I can go back to a checkpoint easily when things get really bad. What solution comes even close to that? Cursor nails this really well. Claude code acolytes tell me to just use git commands. Yeah, no thanks. Vibe coding? Yes, no meaningful difference.

verdverm 1y ago
> nothing comes close to X you lost me here because this is based on your opinion and impressions, not data. How do you know nothing comes close? The PR experience you describe is available in several options and setups. Different strokes for different folks, your choice is not superior by any meaningful measure other than your own preferences
- warmedcookie 1y ago
  I don't. I'm fishing for alternatives.
  - verdverm 1y ago
    There are better ways to ask for alternative options and experiences
foldr 1y ago
Cursor’s killer feature is that you can use it to edit diffs or restore a known good version? That is basic version control functionality. I understand what you’re referring to (I use Zed, which also has an interface for partially applying AI-generated code changes), but it’s very weird to me that this basic functionality would be considered some kind of competitive advantage.
- hu3 1y ago
  same for VSCode Copilot. it's a basic feature at this point i guess people just don't try other tools often