alt Hacker NewsI'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)
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lemonish97 • yesterday at 10:46 PM
OpenCode and Github copilot are still options if you want the freedom to choose different models.
boc • today at 4:01 AM
Zed is snappy as an IDE, and ghostty for your CLI. I've done like 99% of my work in the past month just in ghostty + CC.
solenoid0937 • today at 3:58 AM
If you are very cost constrained, Codex. Otherwise, Claude Code.
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acjohnson55 • today at 1:37 AM
I use VSCode and Conductor right now.
I really doubt they'll swap in Grok. Grok seems pretty dead. Probably more likely they'll reuse the hardware for composer.
If value is a concern, Codex. It's pretty hard to beat those subsidies. If you really want model freedom, Copilot is surprisingly decent value and as of right now let's you use your sub in other harnesses like OpenCode.