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0 pointssolarkraft4mo ago0 comments

Absolutely. CC can be tuned to not do too much crap on its own, but even with the new extension its IDE integration and multi thread management are still significantly worse, as is its status reporting, which I find to be very important.

Also, somehow magically, I’ve found Cursor’s Auto mode to be significantly faster than the specific models I’ve tried, Claude being among them.

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infecto4mo ago

Auto is pretty amazing and I think most folks that have issues or complain about cost are simply not using Auto.

enraged_camel4mo ago

Auto is only good for trivial stuff at this point. It is quite subpar at everything else. Th is is probably because it almost always defaults to Claude Sonnet 3.5 (which you can tell if you ask the agent to identify itself and tell you its version), and that is pretty outdated.

infecto4mo ago

Again it goes back to what your workflow is. I don’t think trivial is the right word. I use auto to write fairly advanced code but I do it in bite size chunks or relatively bite size. So thinking function level or a couple of interdependent functions ruins being written.

I would agree it is not as good on doing lengthy work where it’s taking design all the way through implementing a feature in a single shot but trivial is not a good description.

I also don’t think you’re right. 3.5 was recently deprecated and even before then, Cursor has been hitting rate limits with Anthropic. Auto is as much a token cost optimization as it is a rate limit optimization.

lubujackson4mo ago

Auto had a big improvement a few weeks ago (around when pricing changed)

infecto4mo ago

If a few weeks is months I would agree I think the change to Auto was 2-3+ months ago when they moved to charging named models and higher limits on Auto.

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0 pointssolarkraft4mo ago0 comments

Also, somehow magically, I’ve found Cursor’s Auto mode to be significantly faster than the specific models I’ve tried, Claude being among them.

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infecto4mo ago

Auto is pretty amazing and I think most folks that have issues or complain about cost are simply not using Auto.

enraged_camel4mo ago

infecto4mo ago

I would agree it is not as good on doing lengthy work where it’s taking design all the way through implementing a feature in a single shot but trivial is not a good description.

lubujackson4mo ago

Auto had a big improvement a few weeks ago (around when pricing changed)

infecto4mo ago

If a few weeks is months I would agree I think the change to Auto was 2-3+ months ago when they moved to charging named models and higher limits on Auto.

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