Re:Cursor CLI
by plantain on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:45AM
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CC just feeds the whole codebase and entire files into the model, no RAG, nothing in the way. It works substantially better because of that, but it's $expensive$.
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That's not true. It uses CLI tools (e.g. find, grep) to find the relevant code from the codebase.
The more stuff you put in the context the worse models perform. All of them.
Larger context is a bonus sometimes, but in general you're degrading the quality of the output by a lot.
Precise prompting and context management is still very important.