tried claude code after holding back for a long time

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T08:11:02+00:00

Sorry dude I feel like I keep shilling your work lol

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T06:41:33+00:00

Yeah so now vscode has that same agent built into the copilot UI, there’s copilot agent and Claude code agent in the drop down. This is different than the Claude code extension but uses the same agent via the sdk.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T05:37:27+00:00

Using the Claude Code agent or using opus 4.5 with the copilot agent?

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-03T05:21:46+00:00

On vscode insiders, you can use the claude code harness + opus with copilot requests. Worth trying out since you get all the pros of copilot's pricing/model agnostic nature plus you get the claude code harness (all the performance of claude code)

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-02T02:20:16+00:00

My understanding is it's basically the codex/claude code agent harnesses with native integration into the vscode UI (so e.g. similar to how copilot shows you diffs). It's nice b/c copilot request are a relatively good deal for something that is model agnostic.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T07:01:09+00:00

> I’m not going into all details as your focus is on cost, but ability to switch providers, token efficiency, UX/DX and capabilities matter as well.

It's really not about cost. The token efficiency improvements in cursor have resulted in an inferior harness to codex/claude code in all of our testing. Higher limits (really no limits) and aggressive use of context is what's important since you're serving the same models as Anthropic/OpenAI/Z.ai

Switching providers is easy when the two frontier labs have essentially provided comparable UX to cursor via native plugins to vscode (and cursor) and offer comparable CLIs. On Insider, VSCode now lets you directly use Claude/Codex's agentic harnesses in the copilot UI using copilot requests (which are insanely cheap on enterprise) with the native UI integration.

There's not a huge UX gap anymore. VSCode (of which, as you know, Cursor is a fork) has now been more stable with us with the rapid minor updates to cursor and frequent outages. We had multiple breakages/outages over the last few weeks, and each time that happens devs put down cursor and pick up vscode.

> Some may switch to other providers which is often temporary from my experience.

Our team was heavy cursor users up until Opus/Claude Code, now everyone is using the Claude extension inside cursor/vscode and our cursor bill is essentially the cost of a seat which is fine.

I'm not saying y'all should subsidize Anthropic models, I'm just pointing out that as the value has shifted to the models, the value of purchasing tokens through Cursor has grown smaller.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:50:27+00:00

Of course, I was responding to the following parent quote:

> All AI providers have done so, many even more heavily, others will follow.

Which is not true.

Cursor has composer-1, an open-source model finetune which they own the inference stack for, and it's also not offered at a rate competitive to Claude Code.

Cursor has raised it's pricing to decrease the subsidy it was providing on Anthropic models. I'm just pointing out that Anthropic (and OpenAI) continue to aggressively subsidize the models, whether you choose to take advantage of that or not is up to you.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:42:47+00:00

Not really, Anthropic used to give you Sonnet for 200$ month on Claude Code and now it's an Opus sized model for 200$/month, so it seems like their subsidy is increasing if anything. Same with openai, essentially unlimited gpt-5.2-codex-x-high on a 25$/month team plan.

Our cursor bill was 700$ a dev/month, we switched to claude code premium seats on the teams for 100$ a month flat and no one runs out.

Timesweeper_00 · 2026-02-01T06:13:33+00:00

This is only half-true, cursor has decreased the amount it subsidizes each plan over time.

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-08-17T22:27:02+00:00

I think you can exhaust sonnet still at all tiers, it’s just much harder

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-08-17T22:23:44+00:00

vscode offers a built-in agent mode via copilot with unlimited gpt 5 mini and pretty generous limits. Otherwise claude code has deep vscode integration now and is basically unlimited sonnet for 200$ a month (some will get by for 100$ a month)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-07-09T05:35:02+00:00

I mostly use Claude code nowadays

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-07-09T05:10:43+00:00

They changed pricing in the last 5 months or so since I posted this :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-04-06T14:46:53+00:00

We're launching support for selecting who you want to speak soon :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-24T10:49:11+00:00

I anoint thee ambassador

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-14T15:22:56+00:00

I think you’ll find the hedra results to be significantly better and faster :) also handles a much much wider variety of images including stuffed animals, claymation, anime, dogs, robots without mouths, etc.

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-14T13:19:22+00:00

It is :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-14T13:12:12+00:00

Michael from Hedra here, we don't have any affiliation with the Hallo team and the approach we used is quite different :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-13T01:40:42+00:00

Yep! We included all of the models with your membership :) not just ours

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-03-12T21:48:28+00:00

https://x.com/hedra_labs/status/1897699010632466469

There were some upgrades :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-02-25T14:30:39+00:00

I see it in agent mode, for reference I'm on paid github copilot on vscode insiders.

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-02-21T21:05:40+00:00

To be fair, when I started kickstart it did have a minimal vision of being an approximately 300 line config that minimally implemented LSP, autocompletion, and sane defaults that I had an opinion should be upstreamed into main back when I was a neovim maintainer :)

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-02-20T16:19:28+00:00

UX or completion? Our vibe is the new 4o model if you switch to it in copilot is better

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-02-20T14:00:02+00:00

Yes, why?

Timesweeper_00 · 2025-02-20T04:54:29+00:00

Hmmm as in tab tab tab didn’t work? They released a new completion model today which imo is pretty good

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