I tried VSCODE agents today and I was really impressed.
Then I tried the same thing in Cursor and I then canceled my cursor subscription. It is just waste of money and time.
Its really sad that my subscription is running until 9/11 (no joke).
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I might be right there with ya, testing it today.
Identified a bug in the IDE functionality that wasted about 60hours of my time in the last month.
And based on the complete lack of anyone from cursor being on here, interacting, fixing the bugs that are listed, or generally being good customer service representatives, I don’t see my bug getting fixed anytime soon or at all. Probably not even acknowledged.
You can’t ■■■■off or ignore your core users or early adopters, or they leave.
Pretty simple.
Plus, VSCode agents is half the price.
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I just joined you.
testing it today, it’s solid. Half the price.
See how it goes.
I cancelled and was issued a refund.
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they would just give you 300 requests then nothing for 10 bucks.
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Im currently trying out Cline in VSCode. Copilots new ”tab” implementation seems promising, which was one of the main reasons I kept using Cursor for so long.
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Last time I tried it, it was much dumber than what Cursor was providing. Actually it was Copilot where I witnessed infinite dumb loop with an agent. Going round and round with stupid changes, fixes for those changes, and then reverting to original and so on and on infinitely. I was so happy that Cursor somehow avoids this… Man, I was naive.
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I tried it out today.
Same setup and workflow as Cursor, using the same models - I was using Claude 3.7 today and Gemini2.5 pro
Worked pretty well, but definitely some differences.
It was a little weird though. It was like it started dumb, but as we worked more and completed more tasks the smarter it got.
I didn’t go in with a heavy documented task list, just a few freestyled tester tasks.
Free 30 day trial on the pro, 10/month after. Good to at least try it out.
Cursor was great when I started but the inconsistencies are compounding now, which is costing me more in time than I’m willing to suffer through.
I need whichever IDE i’m using daily or part of my toolset, AI or no AI, to be solid, bulletproof, and consistent.
The last week I spent more time fixing IDE issues than I did working, which is unacceptable.
I posted a bug thread here earlier today which outlines a major one, and based on my experience reading through the forums and seeing all the issues, I don’t have much confidence that the Cursor team is even going to recognize it as a bug, let alone respond to it.
I’m doing real work which requires solid tools, i’m not mucking around in a sandbox.
See how she goes.
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tried it also…
its definitely different the how cursors seems to handle claude 3.7 for me .
i have a very large codebase that im working on . over 5000+ files with different parts of projects that vaglue use the same name with a slicht prefix difference like products_history
and ec_product_history
and it a lot of the time start using routes and models from another part of the codebase and messing things up big time. i could control it for some time. but then it just got a (cursor) reset lets just name it like that. and it starting to go off in a whole different direction. and messing sht up.
now i tried vscode and indeed its way more focused. at least for me it fixed an error that i was working on with cursor for 2 days reverting half a day sometimes . to get some sense of the code back.
but with vscode its way more foccest on the task i need it to do and do’s not have any of these weird (cursor resets)
to be clear ,
i used cursor with 0 rules
i also used cursor with some rules
i also used cursor with the cursor-riper rules (witch helped some btw)
But for me working in cursor feels like me standing in front of a physical helpdesk.
explaining my problem so he can fix it.
and after 15 -30 min the worker tells me to wait so he can fix the problem.
and a totally new person comes in looks at the product i’m having issues with and start troubleshooting without even asking me what’s wrong.
for me to sometimes put in the agent chat… what tf are u trying to do now anyway ?
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So many of us have the same problem, and that’s “reassuring”.
I’ve been looking at an alternative to cursor to try it out and see if it’s the same overall.
What stands out is “Argument code” and VSCODE.
I think I’ll go for “Argument code” to see with their subscription. CLAUDE should be free too, so I’ll find out more.
I love cursor and frankly I want it to evolve and improve, but you really have to be transparent with users and even more so with those who pay a subscription.
Sometimes many of us have problems with the agent, and I suspect that certain settings are made in real time to restrict or regulate. Anyway, on the cursor team is going through this, please communicate and be transparent with us.
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The bad thing about VSCODE is that on May they will limit the models and requests to 300 for Pro and 1500 for Pro+, and then $0.04 per request to other models different than GPT4o .
At least with Cursor you have unlimited “slow” requests after 500 fast requests.
I’ll give them another chance.
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The extra price of GPT-4o in cursor is the same as claude-3.7 ($0.04/per), but it is unlimited in github copilot, which means that if you use gpt-4o instead of claude-3.7, there is no limit of 300 times in github copilot.
The terrible thing here is: If i cancel my subscription, it’s not be refunded
Such a terrible service
i want to give a small update on my last message, i sometimes need to come back to cursor to fix things that vscode gets lost in.
i feel like for me now the workflow =
vscode for a clean build or add on my current project.
and
cursor to fix things vscode seems unable to fix. ill try to make a post on my own to update these findings.