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tomberttoday at 2:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why do you use it? Genuine question, I want to know what I'm missing.

I guess I don't really understand what it buys you over just running vanilla VS Code and Codex.


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mmkostoday at 8:06 AM

The anti-Cursor sentiment here is baffling to me given how useful it is to me. I use it interactively and actively review everything it produces. I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it. Last I checked, vscode had none of those features. Do (seemingly most) people prefer Codex because it gives a greater degree of autonomy to the agents?

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mleotoday at 3:04 AM

I use the cursor cli, not the IDE. Why? Someone else is paying for it.