[cmrx64]

for me, I’ll keep doing work on the codebase in a separate vscode while Cursor’s agent is wiling away at it, so as to not be distracted or interrupted by the agent activity in the corner of my screen. and then i’ll have a claude or aistudio tab open doing bigger analysis or planning tasks, reading papers together, etc.

[MuffinFlavored]

What would you say to somebody who doesn't trust Cursor to "take the reigns off" and go "agent mode" and do such large changes? Even with "checking/approving/having the final say" as a user, I feel there is time lost if the AI does not do the changes the right way/makes small pesky mistakes.

Autocomplete: yes

Asking questions: yes

I know everybody is all into agent mode and it isn't a Cursor specific thing, I'm just confused why everybody is into it.

[cmrx64]

I just accept that when I return to the Cursor window, it is going to have made some mistakes and I’m going to have to spend some time fixing things. I agree it’s a delicate balance, and sometimes it feels more like I’m exploring methods of steering the AI than I am doing anything about the code.

my usecases have been building relatively self-contained, well-specified components of distributed systems out of academic papers and my own design notes / prototype skeletons, in rust. there’s a lot of context for the agent to ground against, and it can blow out ideas into their implications relatively well ime.

the experience of fixing up lots of pesky mistakes that you yourself would never make is kinda annoying.