I personally disagree on the first point. Claude code in a terminal with vim is much nicer. I just don’t see the need for the bloat of an IDE when the CLI versions work so damn well now.
replyThey have Cursor CLI.
replyCursor is essentially all the Claude Code products but without the horrible bugs of Claude Code products.
You can transfer from CLI to web and it actually works.
And Claude can use CLI too. It's the perfect environment for coding agents.
replyThat's why I'm so puzzled to why Composer doesn't work better when they have the ability to train it from scratch for their agent harness! Yet it still fails to apply edits, gets confused why it can't call some commands in its sandbox, the list goes on...
replyThey seemed to be doing fine with Kimi distillation. Not speaking from experience though, I prefer to use my editor.
reply> They are so good that they actually made Gemini usable
replyI think Gemini is best model out there, and it's not Cursor who you should praise. I use it with jetbrains junie. Vastly cheaper than claude, faster, produces better quality code, actually listens to your instructions, more accurate. I'm sure claude code cli has some cli magic that I'm missing out on, but having everything just work in a nice IDE (and llm to actually understand your symbol table) is like magic.
Are you using Gemini 3.1 Pro? Subscription or paying for the tokens?
replyTried 3.1 pro preview today a little bit, definitely blowing thru credits quicker, not sure about being better quality, but achieved all tasks perfectly.
replyIDK how Junie does it, but I spend less than $50 USD per month and I'm on it 30 hours per week.