[HN Gopher] Cursor 1.0
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Cursor 1.0
Author : ecz
Score : 91 points
Date : 2025-06-04 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.cursor.com)
| helloplanets wrote:
| Is there a good chart somewhere, to compare all the current AI
| coding CLIs / IDEs / extensions with one another?
| trashymctrash wrote:
| this maybe? https://liveswebench.ai/
| tptacek wrote:
| I don't think you really want to boil this down to a number;
| there's a whole lot of feature and workflow differences to
| capture:
|
| * BYO model or not
|
| * CLI, UI, VSC-plugin or web
|
| * async/sync
|
| * MCP support
|
| * context size
|
| * indexed or live grep-style search
|
| There's probably like 10 more.
| swyx wrote:
| this is remarkably lowkey for a 1.0 of a big product.
|
| where is the splashy overproduced video? where is the promises of
| agi? where is the "we are just getting started" / "we cant wait
| to see what you'll build"? how do i know what to think if you
| aren't going to tell me what to think?
|
| edit: oh haha https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1930358111677886677
| asar wrote:
| Cursor recently lost me as a customer. Too many updates that
| disturb my workflow and productivity, no easy way to roll back
| versions, super sparse changelogs, lots of magic in context
| building, really untransparent pricing on max mode. I recently
| made the switch to Claude Code on the Max plan and I couldn't be
| happier. The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across
| files, but I assume it's just a matter of time until that's
| properly implemented in Zed or VSCode.
| lopatin wrote:
| I feel unstoppable with Claude Code Max. I never thought I'd
| pay $200 per month for any developer tool, yet here we are, and
| I also couldn't be happier with it.
| deadbabe wrote:
| Would you pay $400?
| esafak wrote:
| Don't give people ideas.
| 1ucky wrote:
| Since last week it's possible to use Claude Code in the VSCode
| terminal where it now automatically installs a plugin to
| display the diffs.
| philip1209 wrote:
| There has to be some kind of joke in here about how long it takes
| people to declare a 1.0 release. "1 million ARR? Not yet. 10
| million ARR? Not yet. 300 million ARR? Maybe soon."
| esafak wrote:
| "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A
| billion."
| jadbox wrote:
| VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] +
| FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a
| closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
| jeffybefffy519 wrote:
| what model do you use with cline?
| barbazoo wrote:
| FOAM?
| steveklabnik wrote:
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=foam.foa.
| ..
| Redster wrote:
| https://github.com/foambubble/foam
| AstroBen wrote:
| Have you given the alternatives a genuine test? My experience
| with Aider (never used Cline) is that it's nowhere near as good
| tunesmith wrote:
| Are you saying Aider isn't as good as Cursor, or that Cursor
| isn't as good as Aider?
| AstroBen wrote:
| aider isn't as good
| eikenberry wrote:
| Doesn't this rely completely on the AI it is using and not
| the client?
| mirkodrummer wrote:
| copilot autocomplete? my experience with it has been very
| delusional, cursor prediction in cursor(bad naming let's be
| honest) is simply unmatched
| hu3 wrote:
| Copilot in VSCode has autocomplete and also something they
| call "next edit".
|
| In my experience, next edit is a significant net positive.
|
| It fixes my typos and predicts next things I want to do in
| other lines of the same file.
|
| For example, if I fix a variable scope from a loop, it
| automatically scans for similar mistakes nearby and suggests.
| Editing multiple array values is also intuitive. It will also
| learn and suggest formatting prefences and other things such
| as API changes.
|
| Sure, sometimes it suggests things I don't want but on
| average it is productive to me.
| Martinussen wrote:
| Cursor also does this.
| kurtis_reed wrote:
| What does "is goat" mean?
| bluetidepro wrote:
| Goat is slang for "(the) greatest of all time."
| kshacker wrote:
| I was today years old minus maybe a few months when I
| learned this, and I had seen it referenced so many times.
| bluetidepro wrote:
| Some interesting reading about the term:
| https://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-
| patriots/2018/09/0...
| SR2Z wrote:
| This one is not particularly new. I wanna say that GOAT
| was new in the early 90s.
| BudaDude wrote:
| I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with
| extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode.
|
| Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP
| servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is
| running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that
| with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite
| large for no reason.
| tevlon wrote:
| That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule
| them all. more info:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g
| mmasu wrote:
| why would you open 3 IDEs all at once :-)
| nsingh2 wrote:
| Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for
| extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've
| found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available
| and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough
| funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft
| extensions, like Python and C++.
|
| The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor
| uses is several months old, so we're stuck using older
| extensions until they update.
|
| [1] https://open-vsx.org/
| ukblewis wrote:
| I can't be the only one for which the Python support in Cursor
| has been absolutely garbage the past week. I'm super disappointed
| with Cursor. I wanted to love it
| mirkodrummer wrote:
| I keep getting back and forth between Cursor and Zed, but Cursor
| autocomplete and next cursor prediction are still the best in
| class between all the competitors, I don't use chats and agents,
| yet I feel very productive and fast. I sometimes go back to
| Copilot too just to see how is it going but it has been very
| delusional so far regarding code suggestions. The only thing I
| hate about Cursor is the overwrite of some of the shortcuts of
| vscode, I remapped some and learned some new, and that vim mode
| plugin is a bit buggy. This and the fact that performance
| compared with Zed is shit and that's why I go back to Zed
| sometimes, I'm pondering the idea of just using both and keep
| them both open
| theappsecguy wrote:
| Cursor had been atrocious. Building on top of an already crappy
| IDE, you'd hope that they are at least keeping up with VSCode
| improvements and updates. But they are far behind and instead
| keep slapping on more garbage.
|
| The agent stuff is largely useless. The tab prediction go nuts
| every few seconds completely disrupting flow.
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