Yep this was the moment to finally remember to cancel my cursor subscription. I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.

You don't use any companies with a Twitter/X account? That must be tricky.

Voluntarily choosing to not spend money in X related orgs ≠ using services that use X related orgs. As a consumer, our options to vote with our dollar is limited, but that doesn't make it pointless. Real life is not binary and the sentiment that one cannot criticize a system which they partake in is a thought terminating cliche. One only needs to ask "for who does this reflexive thought terminating cliche benefit the most" to find the lede.

Thanks for that but it's unrelated to what the OP said which was "I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.".

Having an X/Twitter account is doing business with Elon. You could say only paid X accounts qualify for this, but I would imagine most brands have paid accounts.

YCombinator has an X account. I suspect the OP is already asking for his Hacker News account to be deleted.

>I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.

Just curious, why do you hate elon so much?

Zed - https://zed.dev/

Integrates a lot of agents (I use it with OpenRouter and directly with Pi) natively, is fast (you don't realise how laggy VSCode and its forks are).

Biggest disadvantage: lack of extensions. Lots of quality of life missing (e.g. gitignore integration to add/append gitignore files for different languages).

any IDE you like and Claude code - i have no idea why you'd want to use something like Cursor, it's time came and went.

Afaik Claude has 5 hour rolling window rate limits while Cursor has a monthly window on the $20 plan.

The 5 hour window sounds annoying for hobbyists who only use it time to time when they want to dive into some personal project.

Because cursor gives you access to tons of different models, not just the Claude models.

This is outdated,

Claude code can be run against any model you want, you just simply need to update the ENV vars.

Or if you have Ollama running locally you can do something like this:

ollama launch claude --model glm-5:cloud

Or if you feel brave and want to turn your laptop into BBQ

ollama launch claude --model minimax:2.5

or you could just use cursor and select between everything at will every request and not have to manage 15 subscriptions

Exactly that. I don't want lots of subscriptions. Zed with OpenRouter sounds all right except it'll be much more expensive than a subscription, I fear.

Not to mention the only company that would have any legitimate interest in acquiring Cursor would be Microsoft since they could just merge VSCode and Cursor into one product at very little cost.

Ironically I cancelled cursor a few days ago. I went back to good old VSCode and just use the Claude code and codex extensions.

Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex that has visual editing of markdown, mockups, diagrams, code with your agents with WYSYWIG diffs as well as task management and kanban session management tied into your agents. Its got a files/plan/editing mode and an agent/sessions mode.

I had never heard of it but it looks pretty slick: https://nimbalyst.com/

Thanks!

And as of today Nimbalyst is open source!

Until yesterday I would have recommended VSCode + Copilot. They had the best pricing of any option. However the pricing was unsustainable and is therefor finished.

How's the ai autocomplete? It was unusable in November when I tried it last and went back to Cursor. Slow and when it finally did something it was just not good. Cursor is super fast and actually gives useful results. I just don't want to give my money to Elon, so I might cancel anyways.

Honestly couldn't tell you anymore; a year ago I was using AI autocomplete, but today AI is writing all code for me.

You asked him and he replied

I was planning to sign up to Copilot, since their pricing was per request not per token.

Has that changed now?

Opus 4.5 and 4.6 removed from all plans. 4.7 locked to medium reasoning with 7.5x request multiplier. Per token pricing starting next month.

But you can't actually sign up to Pro or Pro+; they disabled sign ups until the per token pricing starts.

That structure hasn't changed, but they've recalibrated usage limits to be much worse and removed the useful, yet relatively cheap, Opus 4.5/4.6 models.

I wouldn't jump to that ship.

Zed

In the same boat and landed on Kilo code.

Similar to Cursor, open source, based on open code, compatible with claude code configuration and works with all providers.

Seems quite future proof to me and you can toggle between providers seemlesly

(disclaimer: I work at ampcode)

Give the oracle at amp a go :) Our TUI is really nice as well. Get in touch for some credits.

I briefly used Cursor but stopped and went back to VSCode after the 3.0 rewrite when they ditched it.

The new UI is literally opt-in. Nothing changed for me.

You can use VS Code with Claude Code extension. Best of both worlds

Just use the codex plugin for vscode ?

there's probably an emacs thing out there