Cursor fanboys are on a race to the bottom in a finite market of crud apps. My LLM workflow is 50x more efficient with a few lua scripts and shell aliases + a chat window. Cursor is the Chromebook for software engineering.

Also relevant to mention that 50x number is for real repos that aren’t a 50 file nextjs app or tiny microservice. Cursor probably wins 0 to slop. Absolutely sucks for anything beyond that.

@_opencv_ All the best engineers I know use cursor everyday. Usually not to 1-shot features. But they use chat & tab all the time, and composer sometimes.

@_opencv_ Do you have any examples of talented programmers that agree with this? Also, why do you think Andrej Karpathy publicly supports it? Genuinely looking for more info. I'm a bad dev that loves Cursor, but a decent proportion of talented devs that I know love it too.

@_opencv_ same vibes

@_opencv_ ill trust it when i see it you can open source it

@_opencv_ nvim user would love to see any of your dotfiles even if it's dirty / undocumented etc

@_opencv_ Show us the way!

Reminds me of this post x.com/geoffreylitt/s… Probably there will be a market for researchers who need to prototype things a lot faster But prob not for production engineering (tried to use cursor to work with inference engine, not even after 15 mins I moved back to vim simply they just create unnecessary debt with their composer non-sense)

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Reminds me of this post x.com/geoffreylitt/s… Probably there will be a market for researchers who need to prototype things a lot faster But prob not for production engineering (tried to use cursor to work with inference engine, not even after 15 mins I moved back to vim simply they just create unnecessary debt with their composer non-sense)

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@_opencv_ How's your workflow look like?

@_opencv_ cursor agent is pretty good, hard to build that from scratch. definitely chokes on large context though, although model layer will solve this eventually

@_opencv_ You mean there’s a chance we can compete with all of their badass 1-shot todo apps and resume generators!?

@_opencv_ It’s like when dropshipping became popular and everyone used the same app to source from the same pool of products on shopify. Their final phase is guru courses.

@_opencv_ thats a lot of words but not a lot of open sourcing

@_opencv_ This is probably true and it's also probably true that they'll be very successful

@_opencv_ what do your lua scripts do?

@_opencv_ cursor like a mouse pointer? what are you talking about?

@_opencv_ Show Me

@_opencv_ I too ripped half the features out of cursor and shoved em into lazyvim, but in the end I have kneeled to cursor-sama cuz I wanna try out pro/agent/composer; I just use both now honestly lol. any plugins/scripting I should look into? would love to kick em to the curb again lol

@_opencv_ "cursor is the chromebook for software" hit hard

@_opencv_ you were an emacs enjoyer aren't you

@_opencv_ brutal

@_opencv_ Leak ur lua script bro

@_opencv_ would be curious to know how your workflow works using cursor, huge gains in productivity but i feel it sometimes struggles w/ non-mainstream + better coding workflows could exist, maybe autocomp. centric

@_opencv_ my config simply allows me to write "TODOs" along the lines in any file within any editor, and then I press hotkeys to ask any of LLMs to complete and commit results into git. curious, what your workflow looks like?

@_opencv_ Crud apps is all you need

@_opencv_ 4000 thread count in here

@_opencv_ Skill issue

@_opencv_ Autocomplete is pretty cool though

@_opencv_ Share the workflow fam

@_opencv_ Sauce or it didn't happen

@_opencv_ If you think you can offer a better product to developers so easily, perhaps you should do that. Last I heard Cursor's ARR is a couple hundred million. You could be a billionaire tomorrow if what you're saying is true

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