What people previously said about Cursor

Older than the 25 on Cursor’s page
“Cursor, grok 4.6, and grok bot have been a game changer for me. People are overly critical because they can’t separate the CEO from the product.”
Lost-Hand-5219 · reddit ·
“Go to Cursor Settings (not VS Code settings) and it’s called Window Restoration. Pick “Last Used Windows” rather than “Agent Window” or “Default”.”
Lexski · reddit ·
“Cursor just launched Origin. An AI coding company is now building its own GitHub alternative.”
SeHozaifa · x ·
“So does vscode with copilot. I don't even know why cursor still exists”
BasicCrows · reddit ·
“It's great.”
Loose-Ant6512 · reddit ·
“But using pro+ in cursor for plan + build with grok 4.6 is the best quality code per dollar.”
Alone_Orange5916 · reddit ·
“for me, customization, in my experience cursor has strictly enforced it's coding/chat style, every time I tell it to stop doing something it says "yes, I'll stop from now on", then proceeds to do it in the next message”
s-ley · reddit ·
“Cursor is the IDE plus a Claude seat. Claude Code is a terminal agent that can sit on a repo without the IDE. I use both when I want the agent in a pane the editor does not own.”
leftoverpzero · reddit ·
“They're just not taking reliability seriously.”
vendiddy · hn ·
“I think use Cursor for daily coding. Use Claude Code for large refactors, bulk work and remote‑machine jobs. Many developers use both.”
Top_Winner_42 · reddit ·
“@FloWritesCode built Cursor agent skills to fix this: don't fake Liquid Glass with custom blurs and shadows! #SwiftUI #iOSDev #AI”
peterfriese · x ·
“I left Cursor after Mr Musk acquired it and began pushing Grok.”
senti_sentient · hn ·
“Costs were 2x for the same output compared to using Claude code - same models (subsidized costs) we dumped Cursor ASAP.”
joatmone · reddit ·
“In essence, what I mean is Cursor could migrate Origin out of Amazon's S3, but they'd lose a lot of reliability and/or performance in the process.[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ (Click on Durability and availability)”
doodlesdev · hn ·
“Elon being a douche is enough reason to avoid Cursor”
vxxn · reddit ·
“With Cursor, you get Claude models, other models, and a full IDE all in one place. It feels like you get the best of both worlds.”
Alishhhh11 · reddit ·
“The problem is that Musk acquired Cursor and therefore Cursor has zero credibility.I don't care about what they say because of who they sold out to”
ljm · hn ·
“Cursor's entire schtick is providing AI coding tools. I'll give you one guess as to what they probably used for the diagrams.”
LorenDB · hn ·
“This is a really well written article and definitely changes my perception about Cursor's capability to host a reliable Github replacement. But I could never bring myself to use it because of whose leadership they're under now.”
bilalq · hn ·
“Just imagine the deluge of inbound sales pitches Cursor is now getting from every S3 vendor out there.”
9cb14c1ec0 · hn ·
“I really wish someone would make a version of the opencode desktop application that's as responsive and well-made as Cursor so I can promptly move over.”
bluerooibos · hn ·
“I just switched my claude 100$ account for the cursor 60$ one and Ineven double ckecked with opus5 on which would be better, opus5 gave me a dociding question to ask grok on cursor, it amazed opus5 and it recommended me to move to cursor!”
Apprehensive-Read868 · reddit ·
“I'd love Cursor to integrate something lile this natively tho.”
Small_Reason_5373 · reddit ·
“I still think, would Cursor code have been bigger if Boris Cherny who left Anthropic for Cursor stayed beyond 2 weeks?”
iHarnoorSingh · x ·
“It can't be any worse than current github, and since we've heard plenty of people express their dissatisfaction with github recently, this is actually a good direction for Cursor.”
deburo · hn ·
“Cursor is going all over the place as it can't compete with their model. So, this is a defeat, a pivot, not something glorious!”
nikolay · hn ·
“Interesting, wonder how Cursor will scale with Git with this approach.”
aghuang · hn ·
“I also don't use Cursor (I think most people have moved on to Claude Code/Codex), so also not helpful from that point of view. Regardless, not only do I find it morally wrong to give Musk money, I think it's a bad business idea.”
newspaper1 · hn ·
“Cursor's agent lives inside Cursor, so anything you want to automate around it has to be something Cursor exposed on purpose.”
Potential-Beat2841 · reddit ·
“But, setting that aside, how would creating a custom worktree skill solve my other problem -- grouping chats by worktree in the Cursor UI? And what do you mean "have it used by default on all your other skills"?”
rogersmj · reddit ·
“Continuity system of Cursor. Brilliant name, just like the octo"cat"!”
1qwdq · hn ·
“The thing that does not port to Cursor is composability: Claude Code is a CLI, so you can script it, pipe it, and run twenty headless in parallel as build steps, whereas inside an editor you are always somewhat inside the editor's model of a session.”
Future_AGI · reddit ·
“It's a great harness and Grok 4.6 is legit good. I like how it does things in less steps.”
agardenofsound · reddit ·
“I just started using Grok 4.6 on Cursor. For the price of it it's excellent.”
Pale-Preparation-864 · reddit ·
“Ok got it. The desktop cursor app. thanks”
SaigoNoUchiha · reddit ·
“Ui I agree to that. And I think once they add ai native features to origin its going to be even more attractive”
No_Gas_3727 · reddit ·
“Yes it is crazy good and crazy accurate nowadays. Normally I work with Cursor Composer Auto and the reviewer and planner is Opus but it looks like grok is finding an problem in the Opus plan.”
farhan-x1987 · reddit ·
“Cursor has improved a lot lately.”
Normal-Tie-3455 · reddit ·
“cursor is CRAZY GOOD now with new Grok.”
Actual_Try_9728 · reddit ·
“Cursor won out by a landslide!”
steve228uk · reddit ·
“In cursor IDE”
AbbreviationsOk6975 · reddit ·
“I’m trying to determine if using a fable subagent for adversarial review is gonna cost me the whole window plus the fable response. Also @cursor is there any chance we could get some additional sub agent configurations?”
reed00000 · reddit ·
“Well, why use Claude code when cursor can do the same thing but also has significantly more other features? Including access to the entire vscode extension marketplace.”
AsidK · reddit ·
“Should I give a try to Cursor IDE?”
GrokInsider · x ·
“Claude code is WAY cheaper than Cursor. Cursor users get ripped off with token costs compared to a direct subscription with Anthropic.”
ChronoLink99 · reddit ·
“Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.”
brasic · hn ·
“Cursor kept changing its ui, and I found that separating the agentic app from the editor to be cleaner for me. Functionally, you can do the same workflows either way.”
Healthy-Flow1327 · reddit ·
“Cursor, Jet Brains AI assistant etc are unnecessary and outdated middle harnesses. CC and codex directly are just superior.”
FocusKontrol · reddit ·
“Cursor is a paid for app. VS Code is free.”
baldycoot · reddit ·
“Claude Code just worked a lot better than Cursor when I started using it, and I haven’t bothered trying Cursor’s agents again.”
HomemadeBananas · reddit ·