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Comment by zacyungblut

15 hours ago

Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Even though I personally use Cursor, there’s no way it’s even a fraction of $60B

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tombert  14 hours ago

Why do you use it? Genuine question, I want to know what I'm missing.

I guess I don't really understand what it buys you over just running vanilla VS Code and Codex.

  • mmkos  9 hours ago

    The 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?

    • tombert  3 hours ago

      I am personally not a fan of VS Code regardless, but I guess I don’t understand what it buys you over one code editor window and a Codex window both being open?

      I have, right now, a tmux session with Codex on the bottom and Neovim on the top. It does what I was doing in Cursor just fine.

      I am not really “anti Cursor”, I just genuinely am confused as to what it actually buys me over the setup I just described.

    • RugnirViking  7 hours ago

      > I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it

      You 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.

  • orphea  6 hours ago

    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.