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Comment by sgt

3 days ago

But if it's truly better (as in the content and the result being better), then copying and pasting is not the most important thing. I used Claude the other day by just copying and pasting and that worked just fine.

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phailhaus  3 days ago

It cannot be better because Cursor looks across files, whereas with grok you'd be giving it a single one. Grok won't have any context about the rest of your repo, which makes it only useful for toy examples.

  • yababa_y  3 days ago

    What's stopping you at pasting only a single file? I use the workflow Elon suggests (although I've never used it with Grok) predominately, it's well over 30% of my use of LLMs. I have a small piece of python called "crawlxml" that filters + dumps into <file> tags. And of course the LLM doesn't need your actual code in its context to do its job.

  • sgt  3 days ago

    I'm invested in the JetBrains ecosystem though. I tried Junie but it crashed so I'm putting that on pause for now. Maybe there is a Claude plugin that looks across files, not sure.

    Any experiences from HN'ers using JetBrains IDE's like IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion etc?

    • sgt  3 days ago

      Update: Tried Claude using AI Assistant now in JetBrains and it works great

whamlastxmas  3 days ago

Claude code is much better than cursor + sonnet in my opinion, even without the good ide integration

  • dmix  3 days ago

    Can you explain why? I like how I can select chunks of code for context and hit cmd-L (or K) to immediate trigger a change. And the tab autocomplete is amazing.

    • saturneria  3 days ago

      You just have to use Claude Code for a few days and it will be obvious. Cursor may as well go out of business to me and I really loved it a few weeks ago.

      Once you figure out the work flow, Claude Code is just insane.

    • 93po  3 days ago

      its ability to understand tasks and execute them in a way that works without having it try again over and over 10x