I also don't love that Cursor generally plays "context compression" games since they have an incentive to keep their costs minimal. I just don't love any of these tools that try to be a bit too smart as a middleman between you and the LLM (where smart is often defined as 'try to save us the most money or be maximally efficient without the user noticing').
Cline also tries to be smart, but it's all for the benefit of the user. I like the transparent pricing -- you bring your own API key so you're paying the underlying API costs without a middle man markup.
Am I being pennywise and should I just use Cursor directly? Maybe...but I've found my Cline results to be generally better for the more complex queries.
But I’m also missing the regular Cursor Tab inline autocomplete when I’m coding, cuz I still often write code line by line like a caveman.
So what’s the cline alternative to it? Or am I thinking of this wrong?
