Last Friday, I saw a reference to Cursor, downloaded it, and set out to implement some stuff in a new sprint, in a tech stack I'm still gaining familiarity with (Elixir LiveView and associated JS hooks). The Composer feature has been pretty impressive honestly. It's not that it's so much better than copy/paste back and forth with GPT or Claude, it's just the level of easy to use integration. It's really fluid. It's been a good, if not somewhat misguided at times, pairing partner. I've actually learned a bit and been able to get stuff done.<p>I am leery of growing dependent on these tools. On the flip, web stack programming is just so bureaucratic (full of process and nuances), that it's nice to have a helper. I know there are all kinds of "free assemble it yourself" llm and coding tools out there, but I'm struggling to be motivated to row that river right now. I just want something that works.<p>I'm looking for some honest feedback from others who are paying customers of Cursor. Is it worth it? Does it stay worth it? Thoughts on the longevity of their offering?<p>(edit: I'm asking because I hit the "You've reached your trial request limit")
I got it quickly after I got "You've reach your trial request limit", because in that trial I was able to build something that would have made me work for a week, while here it was less than a day.<p>I'm building with js, and ruby, it works pretty well, obviously it's us who has to navigate it for better results.<p>For me, it's worth it.
I just switched to <a href="https://www.trae.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://www.trae.ai/</a> - basically the same thing. but it's free (for now haha)<p>On the philosophical part, well, I can say things to composer like "build out a fastapi server with xyz routes, with a nice folder structure" and it'll do a lot. I still want it to be better, though, re: system design.<p>Maybe there's hidden workflows, like write your thoughts in a doc and let the LLM see that. Or maybe you can have the agent write down <i>its</i> thoughts in a doc as a sort of working memory.<p>I'd love to hear more about people's non-conventional usages of Cursor