[BudaDude]

I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode.

Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.

[nojs]

It’s more of a ticking time bomb because it relies so heavily on upstream model providers who all have competing products, particularly Claude Code.

[ramoz]

I think about this daily. More devs are starting to pick up on Claude Code. The initial “not an IDE!” scare is usually diminished within the initial session.

I don’t think the future of agentic software development is in an IDE. Claude Code gives me power to orchestrate - the UX has nothing to do with terminal; it just turns out an agent that lives on the OS and in the filesystem is a powerful thing.

Anthropic can and will evolve Claude Code at a pace cursor cannot evolve IDE abstractions. And then yea - they are designing the perfect wrapper because they are also designing the model.

Long bet is Claude Code becomes more of an OS.

[Aeolun]

Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.

[geekraver]

And models eat apps over time. If you build an app that’s valuable, OpenAI takes note.

[jlowin]

One of the first features we added to FastMCP 2.0 [1] was server composition and proxying (plus some niceties around trying to reuse servers whenever possible) for exactly this reason, so that you can ideally run a single instance of your preferred servers without replicating the setup over every application. In some ways, MCP standardized how agents talk to APIs but introduced a new frontier of lawless distribution! This is something that has to improve.

[1]: https://gofastmcp.com

[SkyPuncher]

I just run two IDEs.

Cursor is essentially only the wrapper for running agents. I still do my heavy lifting in Jetbrains products.

It actually works out well because I can let Cursor iterate on a task while I review/tweak code.

[brabel]

Have you tried the Jetbrains agent, I think it’s called Jennie? I am trying it right now and it seems decent enough but I haven’t tried Cursor as I don’t really like vs code.

[etoxin]

Same here, everyday coding in Webstorm, Oh I have a task I can offload to copilot, I open VSCode and let a Github CoPilot Agent do that.

Knowing what tools are better for what really helps.

[insane_dreamer]

I use the Claude Code plugin in PyCharm in the same way.

[tevlon]

That's why i use Docker MCP Catalog. One MCP Server to rule them all. more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2L4U7Xq6g

[greymalik]

Here’s an alternate link if you prefer to read text instead of watching a 6 minute video: https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/catalog/

[tuananh]

I wrote my own tool for that too :D

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp

it's a MCP server with WASM plugin system, packaged, signed & published via OCI registry.

[xyc]

I recently discovered toolhive which is pretty handy too https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive

[manorek]

I don't understand. Is this meant to run locally? Because I tried to deploy my agent using GitHub MCP server to K8s. I can't ask my agent to run docker command in a pod.

[nsingh2]

Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft extensions, like Python and C++.

The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor uses is several months old, so we're stuck using older extensions until they update.

[1] https://open-vsx.org/

[artdigital]

You can change it back to use the normal Microsoft marketplace

[MuffinFlavored]

> If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open

This is good user feedback. If Cursor is "Claude + VSCode", why do you need the other 2 open?

[cmrx64]

for me, I’ll keep doing work on the codebase in a separate vscode while Cursor’s agent is wiling away at it, so as to not be distracted or interrupted by the agent activity in the corner of my screen. and then i’ll have a claude or aistudio tab open doing bigger analysis or planning tasks, reading papers together, etc.

[tuananh]

Just use other transport like streamable http.

i wrote a MCP with plugin system where you only need to run 1 instance and add plugins via config file.

https://github.com/tuananh/hyper-mcp

[TranquilMarmot]

What are you using MCP for?

We recently launched Zapier MCP, we host the servers for you: https://zapier.com/mcp

[mmasu]

why would you open 3 IDEs all at once :-)

[elAhmo]

TIL that it doesn't have the same extensions as VSCode. I thought they share the same directory.

[hn_throw2025]

This is only effectively a problem for a handful of MS vendored extensions.

[TechDebtDevin]

Just run it on http

[vFunct]

this is the way.

STDIO MCP is really just a quick hack.