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by mountainriver 391 days ago
Any coding solution that doesn’t offer the ability to edit the code in an IDE is nonsense.

Why would I ever want this over cursor? The sync thing is kinda cool but I basically already do this with cursor

2 comments

Heh, personally I'd say any coding solution that lives inside an IDE is nonsense :P Funny how perspectives can be so different. I want something standalone, that I can use in in a pane to the left/right of my already opened nvim instance, or even further away than that. Gave Cursor a try some weeks ago but seems worse than Aider even, and having an entire editor just for some LLM edits/pair programming seems way overkill and unnecessary.
Ideally, it would be built in to [my IDE of choice]. So I neither have to have a separate browser window open, copy/pasting, or have a separate IDE open, copy/pasting. Having it as a standalone tool makes as much sense as having a spell checker that is a separate browser window running a separate app from the word processor you are using to write your letter. Why?
Can you have it make changes, then review them in a gif diff? That’s basically all I do with cursor at this point