top | item 44185572

(no title)

asar | 9 months ago

Cursor recently lost me as a customer. Too many updates that disturb my workflow and productivity, no easy way to roll back versions, super sparse changelogs, lots of magic in context building, really untransparent pricing on max mode. I recently made the switch to Claude Code on the Max plan and I couldn't be happier. The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files, but I assume it's just a matter of time until that's properly implemented in Zed or VSCode.

discuss

1ucky|9 months ago

Since last week it’s possible to use Claude Code in the VSCode terminal where it now automatically installs a plugin to display the diffs.

asar|9 months ago

thanks! i never set this up properly. did it now though, really cool!

lopatin|9 months ago

I feel unstoppable with Claude Code Max. I never thought I'd pay $200 per month for any developer tool, yet here we are, and I also couldn't be happier with it.

deadbabe|9 months ago

Would you pay $400?

ed_mercer|9 months ago

Can you elaborate? How is it better than Cursor?

h2782|9 months ago

The current max pricing is actually as transparent as it has ever been: It's 20% more to use Max than the APIs directly. I am not sure if your feedback is outdated/based on a previous version of reality?

asar|9 months ago

Yes, they've updated the docs since last week, I guess. Before, it didn't mention the 20% markup.

nojs|9 months ago

> The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files

You can commit checkpoints prior to each major prompt and use any IDE’s builtin visual diff versus last commit. Then just rebase when the task is done

hn_throw2025|9 months ago

I have a workflow that also uses micro commits. I keep my older JetBrains IDE open at the same time. Using feature branches liberally, any successful interaction between me and the LLM in Cursor results in a micro commit. I use the Cursor AI ‘generate commit message’ for speed. Every so often, I switch over to Jetbrains to use Git Interactive Rebase to tidy up the commits, as the diff viewer is unsurpassed. Then those micro commits get renamed, reordered, squash merged as required. All possible from Git CLI of course, but the Jetbrains Git experience is fantastic IMHO. All their free community edition IDEs have this.