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by MintPaw 71 days ago
Sounds really minor, but was actually a big contributor to me canceling and switching. The VS Code extension has a morphing spinner thing that rapidly switches between these little catch phrases. It drives me crazy, and I end up covering it up with my right click menu so I can read the actual thinking tokens without that attention vampire distracting me.

And of course they recently turned off all third party harness support for the subscription, so you're just forced to watch it and any other stuff they randomly decide to add, or pay thousands of dollars.
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bayesnet 71 days ago
I used Gemini CLI for a while because it was free to me. The primary reason I stopped was because it wasn't very good, but their "thinking summaries" didn't help matters. They were model generated and just said things to the effect of "I'm thinking very hard about how to solve this problem" and "I'm laser-focused on the user objective". So I feel you: small things like this make a big difference to usability.
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andai 71 days ago
I'm not sure if this is official, but from what I gathered, they just bill 3rd party stuff as extra usage now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633568

(They were against ToS before (might still be?), and people were having their Anthropic accounts banned. Actually charging people money for the tokens they're using seems like a much more sensible move.)

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MintPaw 70 days ago
Yes, but I got a subscription because I was tired of alt+tabbing to the Cursor spending dashboard between prompts to make sure I wasn't over spending. I'm ok if they slow me down for a few hours during peak usage. But getting cut off for 20+ days because I'm not thinking about the prompt cache for a bit makes a subscription feel pretty useless.

I was using it with Zed before, because I guess I'm one of the only programmers who doesn't just full vibe, which seem to mean I'm not the target customer for a lot of these companies who seem to be going all in on the terminal interfaces.

I've gone back to Cursor auto the last few weeks, it hasn't been too bad actually, I haven't managed to run out of the $20/mo plan yet.

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