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Re:Void: Open-source Cursor alternative by jjani on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:03AM (#43934189)
Spending too much time on HN and other spaces (including offline) where people talk about what they're doing. Making LLM-based things has also been my job since pretty much the original release of GPT3.5 which kicked off the whole industry, so I have an excuse.

The big giveaway is that everyone who has tried it agrees that it's clearly the best agentic coding tool out there. The very few who change back to whatever they were using before (whether IDE fork, extension or terminal agent), do so because of the costs.

Relevant post on the front page right now: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code [0]. The comment section supports the above as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409

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Re:Void: Open-source Cursor alternative by opdahl on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:16AM (#43937046)
I personally tried it and I felt it way more confusing to use compared to using Cursor with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The CLI interface seems to me more to lend itself for «vibe coding» where you actually never work and look with the actual code. That is why I think Cursor and IDEs are more popular than CLI only tools.
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