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Comment · 10 days ago
One can only hope the tribunal that rendered this ridiculous decision is one of the organizations that lose DNS access on November 24.
Comment · 23 days ago
Yeah. I prefer 2FA. My passwords look like 1bTsby#ZNaz1TJDDzglL&MmD&HOCMd^Cc and having a separate device with a TOTP token is more secure.

I won’t be victim of url jacking since the password manager feels the form. And if it can’t then the domain name is wrong.

And if you steal all the keys/passwords, unlike with pass keys, that’s not enough. I don’t like having all my eggs in one basket no matter how shiny.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I do the same but I rely on devcontainers because editors like vscode, zed, etc… provide native support. It seems easier to use than asb.

If you open a project using a devcontainer it prompts you to build one. As long as you install all the tools you need in it, it just works.

Orbstack is much nicer than Docker to host the containers.

Comment · 1 month ago
Imagine all the flack the Chinese would take if it was one of their labs instead of OpenAI found doing abusing internet resources like tbis. Politicians would be talking about sanctions and new laws to protect America!
Comment · 2 months ago
Some banks. And requesting a French marriage certificate from abroad.

A few years ago I could have done it all on a Linux PC.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks your your feedback.

I just retried Zed and yeah, it's much much better than last time I gave it a shot!!!

I turned on the review stuff, and yeah I can do more or less what I could in Cursor. Check something. Do a quick inline promtp for the three lines I dislike and move on.

And of course the editor is so much nimbler/nicer.

No plan mode, but for big edits I'd probably use codex or something just like you. If you have any advice for integrating for that flow, I'll take them.

I guess whatever advantage cursor has, it will die once "Sol" is no longer integrated, as it was my favorite heavy work model. But I sure will miss the snappy auto/composer stack of Cursor.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense. It’s sort of what I do too when I use codex/claude/t3 code, but usually via GUI.

The in-editor context review is something that does not seem long for first world. Sadly. Maybe I’ll be forced to make a zed extension or something, maybe on top of jujustu…

Comment · 2 months ago
Oh. Really? I guess that was not such an advantage after all… still cursor fast models are so much faster than what you get in Claude/codex.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don’t see how opencode 2 (or 1) addresses any of my concerns. I thought it might avoid rg/grep the code base on every prompt but does not even seem to be the case.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve been trying to cancel my cursor subscription but I always come back. ;)
Comment · 2 months ago
In the case of TUIs I’m going to assume you review the code externally in neovim or lazy git or something like that?

I don’t like relying on GIT for that and making things as good/done as I go. But with these agentic tools that’s what I have to do. Stage everything I like, manually edits a few bits.

But what do you when you find something where you want to say the agent: I don’t like this for reasons x and y redo as z. I’m like one shortcut away in context inside cursor to say that to my agent? You have to change tab in herdr and then what? Type the file name and line numbers? Is there a way to do this that does not seem very frustrating?

Also open code, codex, etc. super slow. They grep the code. Every. Single. Time. Cursor has a semantic index

Comment · 2 months ago
Will give it a try. Thanks!
Comment · 2 months ago
Interesting. Will check. Thanks!
Comment · 2 months ago
I use codex all the time. It’s inferior to cursor for the two reasons mentioned. It rediscovers the world with rg (no indexing). Wall of diff at the end.

The GUI slightly better than Claude. And it’s a million times cheaper than Claude.

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