Have people been dropping cursor usage for Claude code? I have dropped to using cursor as just an ide with auto complete. Curious if others are doing this too.
Cursor’s autocomplete is SuperMaven (which they acquired).
From the site :
“Supermaven uses Babble, a proprietary language model specifically optimized for inline code completion. Our in-house models and serving infrastructure allow us to provide the fastest completions and the longest context window of any copilot.”
LLMs are literally auto-complete models. I just so happens that when your auto-complete model gets big enough, and you poke it in the right way, it accidentally pretends to be intelligent. And it turns out, that pretending to be intelligent is almost as useful as actually being intelligent.
Claude Code makes me feel like I'm dispatching a legit engineer to go get something done. But they come back in a minute instead of a week. Most of the time the solution gets the job done. Sometimes it introduces too much complexity, sometimes it's totally wrong, but it gets the job done. Cursor meanwhile just feels like shortening the (copy editor/paste chat/copy chat/paste editor) loop.
For $200/month you can get equivalent value to a team of engineers. Plan accordingly! The stack is no longer safe for employment. You need to move up to manager or move down to metal.
tom_m|7 months ago
matt3210|8 months ago
hn_throw2025|8 months ago
From the site : “Supermaven uses Babble, a proprietary language model specifically optimized for inline code completion. Our in-house models and serving infrastructure allow us to provide the fastest completions and the longest context window of any copilot.”
avianlyric|8 months ago
ipnon|8 months ago
For $200/month you can get equivalent value to a team of engineers. Plan accordingly! The stack is no longer safe for employment. You need to move up to manager or move down to metal.
ducksinhats|8 months ago
Why couldn't Claude do a managers job?
aprilthird2021|8 months ago
I see people mention converting old legacy code from an old language to something more modern. I've also seen people mention greenfield projects.
Anything other than this? I'm trying to bring this productivity to my work but so far haven't been able to replace a week of work in a few minutes yet