Former Claude web app user. I used to be able to have very in depth conversations with Claude about concepts I was trying to grasp. I haven’t really been able to recreate that experience with Cursor. Everything is too concise. Very surface level. No use of analogy. I’ve tried to recreate the web app experience through explicit prompting: “Do a deep dive on this topic”, “Pretend you’re a professor giving a lecture on this topic”, etc. with no success.
I can see how this would be ideal when expecting code output, so I can’t fault the Cursor team for defaulting to concise mode. But as we all know, programming is also the decision to be a lifelong learner. I would love to have the ability to have in depth conversions about concepts I’m trying to grok, without having to leave my editor, and within the full context of my codebase.
At the very least I would love to have the explanatory option available through the API.