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0 pointsnikcub8mo ago0 comments

Cursor see it coming - it's why they're moving to the web and mobile[0]

The bigger issue is the advantage Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have in developing and deploying their own models. It wasn't that long ago that Cursor was reading 50 lines of code at a time to save on token costs. Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to, and it blew everything else away.

Cursor could release a cli tomorrow but it wouldn't help them compete when Anthropic and Google can always be multiples cheaper

[0] https://cursor.com/blog/agent-web

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Aeolun8mo ago

> Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to

I don’t think this is true at all. The reason CC is so good is that they’re very deliberate about what goes in the context. CC often spends ages reading 5 LOC snippets, but afterwards it only has relevant stuff in context.

ec1096858mo ago

Background of how it works: https://kirshatrov.com/posts/claude-code-internals

Prompt: https://gist.github.com/transitive-bullshit/487c9cb52c75a970...

manmal8mo ago

Also check out claude-trace, which injects fetch hooks to get at the data: https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-trac...

RainyDayTmrw8mo ago

I'm always surprised how short system prompts are. It makes me wonder where the rest of the app's behavior is encoded.

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anon70008mo ago

I’ve definitely observed that CC is waaaay slower than cursor

nsonha8mo ago

Heard a lot of this context bs parroted all over HN, don't buy it. If simply increasing context size can solve problem, Gemini would be the best model for everything.

SamDc738mo ago

Gemini tends to be better at bug hunting, but yes everything else Claude is still superior

extr8mo ago

I think this is an interesting and cool direction for Cursor to be going in and I don't doubt something like this is the future. But I have my doubts whether it will save them in the short/medium term:

- AI is not good enough yet to abandon the traditional IDE experierence if you're doing anything non-trivial. Hard finding use cases for this right now.

- There's no moat here. There are already a dozen "Claude Code UI" OSS projects with similar basic functionality.

madeofpalk8mo ago

I have a whole backlog of trivial tasks I never get around to because I’m working on less trivial things.

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