Has anyone found a good alternative to Cursor, either an IDE or CLI tool?
If you’ve tried something that works well for coding, please share your experience. It could be helpful for the whole community.
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Now that Cursor got acquired by SpaceX, us legacy users are probably going to get completely purged, just like the legacy blue checks on Twitter back then.
I’ve found Zed to be amazing, mostly due to stability and performance. It lacks a few features depending on what AI provider you use (e.g. I used Cursor CLI which doesn’t give me the nice code diff view/review, only via git), but well worth it for me - Cursor ate most of my resources (on macos) and was instable as crazy. Also it doesn’t feel like they eff you over all the time with pushing their way of coding (agent view, auto-changing your model selection, etc). In terms of subscription I’m always trying out new thing - so far haven’t been a fan of the chinese models (too much token use, too many hallucinations and misunderstandings) no matter how good the benchmarks were. I’ve used Claude previously and was happy alongside Cursor legacy plan, next month I’ll try OpenAI again. Nothing gets close to 500 requests for $20, but that’s just the game now…
So, as you wished, Grok 4.6 is in max mode too.
Freebuff gives a lot of good free usage.
This isn’t new information. This has been what they’ve been saying for over a year now.
Really? So this is like.. psychological trick? I thought they recently added it so that they can mess with legacy users even further. Either way, its the end for me, even if the legacy plan will remain, still they have removed many valuable features that used to make Cursor unique, now its just another AI wrapper, better use Codex tbh
Next time they will be: you need max to login, browse, select, use forum, and even renew the plan, introducing, MAX Tax!
This is actually sad but oh well, farewell Cursor, it was nice journey while it lasted