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by jjordan12 hours ago |
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upvoteby zacyungblut12 hours ago|
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Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Even though I personally use Cursor, there’s no way it’s even a fraction of $60B
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upvoteby tombert11 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby mmkos5 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby tombert14 minutes ago|
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I am personally not a fan of VS Code regardless, but I guess I don’t understand what it buys you over one code editor window and a Codex window both being open?

I have, right now, a tmux session with Codex on the bottom and Neovim on the top. It does what I was doing in Cursor just fine.

I am not really “anti Cursor”, I just genuinely am confused as to what it actually buys me over the setup I just described.

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upvoteby RugnirViking3 hours ago|
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> I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it

You can do that with claude code, github copilot (built into vs code) and codex, in any of their IDE versions, plugins for other ides (jetbrains, vscode, anything else you care to name) and also, of course, the CLI versions of all of them. They're also integrated into github, jira, and everything else.

Seriously, try other tools! if only to get a more balanced perspective.

This all being said, its been a long time since I last tried cursor... I'll give it a go.

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upvoteby orphea2 hours ago|
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My employer pays for Cursor and Claude but not Codex. I often find Claude dumb (yes, even Opus), thus I'm using Cursor with GPT-5.4. If you have Codex, you don't miss anything.
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upvoteby mleo10 hours ago|
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I use the cursor cli, not the IDE. Why? Someone else is paying for it.
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upvoteby vasco9 hours ago|
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It's 100% a fraction of $60B. That's not debatable it's just simply fact.
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upvoteby padjo7 hours ago|
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I dunno it seems pretty irrational to me.
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upvoteby 7 hours ago|
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upvoteby bonzini6 hours ago|
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The question is what's the denominator.
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upvoteby vasco2 hours ago|
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Yep that was the joke!
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upvoteby zuzululu10 hours ago|
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and I'm being completely neutral and objective in saying this: Elon Musk has been a horrible capital allocator but great at financial engineering. X is still struggling to win back advertisers (they will never come back) and still in the red. I have little reason to believe this is also another careful and shrewd financial decision.
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upvoteby rvnx9 hours ago|
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Let’s buyback my friends who invested in that thing and they will help pump my IPO
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upvoteby vasco9 hours ago|
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He spun that story into "he was saving democracy" so it sounds like he paid for that reason. He will do the same here, he never does a wrong move you just can't see the 76D chess.
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upvoteby sailfast11 hours ago|
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I mean, technically they also re-sell AI tokens. Unsure if that’s with a markup or a discount.
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