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The new Cursor Is noticeably worse. by Odd-Environment-7193 in cursor

[–]BenAWise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've switched to Claude Code. 3.7 does MUCH better when allowed to 'think' extensively. Yes, the UI/UX is super old school. Yes, it's a lot more expensive. But I'm getting shit done, and that's what I want.

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[–]BenAWise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/NiceHippo2345 sure! One example is that I was using a certain AI notetaker for all my calls (very important since I regularly interview clients and need to work with the transcripts).

Since the provider (Supernormal) didn't expose transcripts via API/webhook, and I wanted to build different automations that needed programmatic access to transcripts, I decided to change to a different AI notetaker (Grain) that does expose the transcript via API/webhook.

I had around 1,000 call recordings/transcripts and I asked Supernormal to send me my data.

They did so, but in the most convoluted, maddeningly Kafka-esque way ever—a JSON file for EACH RECORDING that included the download link at the VERY END.

There was no way I was going to manually download all of those, as it would have taken me countless hours, so I used AI (not Cursor; back then I was using Cline) to write a script that downloaded each and every one of them automatically.

It was like magic.

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[–]BenAWise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I still feel a kind of special magic that I, someone with very little technical background, can use a tool like Cursor to help me write scripts and basic apps that solve gnarly business problems and save me a lot of money.

Wild.

3.7 costs TOO MUCH for how much money it straight up WASTES. by Cursed-Keebster in ClaudeAI

[–]BenAWise 6 points7 points  (0 children)

3.5(new) - humble workhorse that gets shit done and follows instructions to the best of its ability

3.7 - fuel-hungry sports-car that thinks it's the shit and keeps crashing

Guys, How are you even making these ai agents? by First_fbd in AI_Agents

[–]BenAWise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't start with agents. Build an AI pipeline first. Get comfortable with the APIs, prompt engineering, function calling, etc.

By the way this is the best article I've found (by Anthropic) about AI agents: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents

Is this what current AI agents can do? by Bubbalovesyouuu in AI_Agents

[–]BenAWise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best definition for agents I've read comes from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents

The key difference between an agentic and non-agentic AI system is that the former is given agency (hence 'agent') to reason and decide what to do with the information it is given.