I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by jjude on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:42AM (#43341349)

Which local model would you recommend that comes close to cursor in response quality? I have tried deepseek, mistral, and few others. None comes close to quality of cursor. I keep coming back to it.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by itsabackupplan on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:55AM (#43341439)

It's a backup plan, who cares if the quality matches? If it did, Cursor would not be in question.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by walthamstow on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:57AM (#43341461)

A $10k backup plan? That makes sense. No wonder you used a throwaway.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by walthamstow on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:20AM (#43341624)

The hardware isn't free. Someone asks a question and your answer is who cares about $10k of hardware hanging around as a subpar backup?

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by itsabackupplan on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:30AM (#43341701)

See, the thing is, I never wanted to comment on the cost or feasibility of the hardware at all. What I was commenting was that any backup plan is expected to be subpar by very nature, and if not, shouldnbe instantly promoted. If you'll notice that was 100% of what I said. I was adding to the pile of "this plan is stupid". Cursor has an actual value proposition.

Of course then you disrespected me with a rude ad hominem and got a rude response back. Ignoring the point and attacking the persin is a concession. M

For the record, I and many others use throwaways wvery single thread. This isn't and shouldn't be reddit.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by walthamstow on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:37AM (#43341738)

You're right, I shouldn't have said the throwaway bit, sorry. However, you're ignoring the context of the conversation, which is a $10k piece of hardware. I don't know what you expected to add to the conversation by saying "who cares?" when someone asks for advice, in context or even in isolation.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by grimgrin on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:25AM (#43343001)

wrong. where the user is asking for recommended models (for offline use), they’re not saying “yes in fact I will burn $10000 on a computer”, not at all lol

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by ant6n on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:46PM (#43345798)

Possibly useful comment on local models, perhaps also fitting on machines with less ram:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340989

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by pknerd on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:19AM (#43341617)

Can one run cursor with local LLMs only?

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by _puk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:40AM (#43341337)

Back up your $20 a month subscription with a $2000 Mac Studio for those days your internet is down.

Peak HN.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by automatic6131 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:51AM (#43341413)

Lol he suggested a $10k Mac Studio

But you can at least resell that $10k Mac Studio, theoretically.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by mettamage on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:59AM (#43341472)

Trying to do that with an M1 laptop of 32 GB and it's hard to get even 1000 euro's for it in the Netherlands whereas the refurbished price is at double of that.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by yohannesk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:55AM (#43341445)

Even more absurd is that Mac Studio with 512GB RAM costs around $9.5K

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by ant6n on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @12:04PM (#43344672)

> Peak HN.

But, alas, not a single upvote.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by rullopat on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:56AM (#43341450)

2000$? You wish!

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by _puk on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:14AM (#43342006)

Lol, not sure where I got the 2k from. Brain fart, but I'll let it stand :D

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by timothygold on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:20AM (#43342953)

Maybe this "backup" solution.. developed into commodity hardware as an affordable open source solution that keeps the model and code locally and private at all times is the actual solution we need.

Lets say a cluster of raspberry pi's / low powered devices producing results as good as claude 3.7-sonnet. Would it be completely infeasible to create a custom model that is trained on your own code base and might not be a fully fledged LLM but provides similar features to cursor?

Have we all gone bonkers sending our code to third parties? The code is the thing you want to keep secret unless your working on an open source project.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by eadmund on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:21AM (#43342051)

But then I’d be using a Mac, and that would slow my development down and be generally miserable.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by throwaway314155 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:26AM (#43342080)

lol

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by SCdF on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:41AM (#43351654)

... to make *completely* sure that they forgot how to program?

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