Why do you use it? Genuine question, I want to know what I'm missing.
replyI guess I don't really understand what it buys you over just running vanilla VS Code and Codex.
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.
replyThe 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?
reply> I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it
replyYou 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.
I use the cursor cli, not the IDE. Why? Someone else is paying for it.
replyIt's 100% a fraction of $60B. That's not debatable it's just simply fact.
replyThe question is what's the denominator.
replyYep that was the joke!
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