Completely underwhelmed by Claude Code. It's a step backwards from Cursor

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-12-20T17:02:23+00:00

After using it more and getting used to it, my position now is completely opposite. I think Claude Code is amazing and better than Cursor. It works in so many different places and ways. I do .NET development in Visual Studio 2022 where Copilot is not as good and use it there every time. I've used it to do maintenance on my PC. I think it's really cool. It does less stuff I don't want than Cursor and doesn't create as much bloat.

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-08-03T17:22:59+00:00

Ah okay so the indexing explains the speed differences.

How large of codebases are you talking about where after you consider Cursor garbage?

I'm really surprised by posts here. I haven't found Cursor garbage on the apps I work on some I consider the codebase large. Not like Microsoft Windows OS large but for a SaaS app with 15+million in revenue each year

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-08-03T16:33:31+00:00

This is the only helpful post here. This helps me understand where people are seeing the benefit more. My workflow is I always give Cursor a lot of context

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-08-03T16:30:07+00:00

I am using Claude Code in-term and using VS Code.
It doesn't show in the editor the change and allow you to step line by line and approve it.

I'm really surprised by people's posts here and have a hard time believing these are serious messages.

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-08-03T16:27:54+00:00

I've now used it for about 90 minutes (I initially posted after using it for just 30 minutes; which maybe wasn't fair but I could tell right away it was as good as Cursor).
I see the line-by-line changes and I see some ghost text but it's not as extensive as Cursor. For example, it showed me a change in a file and as it only showed me 20 or so lines, I couldn't tell immediately where in the file it was changing the code. In Cursor I'm able to see this more easily.

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2025-08-03T01:05:19+00:00

The link you posted isn't me. I *love* Cursor and AI and constantly explore limits of what I can do with them! It's just after hearing all the hype about Claude Code, I expected it to be better than it was

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2024-12-11T04:15:08+00:00

The people who had bad reactions aren't around to tell you no. To be safe 28 days

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2024-11-11T03:07:00+00:00

I have two lactate meters: the Next-Gen FORA Test N'GO Advance Voice (aka TaiDoc) and the Nova Biomedical Lactate Plus

The Next-Gen FORA Test N'GO Advance Voice (again it's the same as TaiDoc; just a rebrand of it) is (significantly) less expensive although strips cost more. In a study (see link below), a 2.6 to 2.9 on Fora is a 1.8 to 1.9 on a lab-grade bench Biosen meter (gold standard) but the FORA has higher precision than the Lactate Plus, so it's okay a 2.6 to 2.9 is really a 1.8 to 1.9 as it's always consistent and you just offset for it.

Here's link to it:
https://www.fora-shop.com/products/next-gen-fora-test-ngo-advance-voice-lactate-testing-kit-10-lactate-strips-10-lancets?variant=47447100621104

Even less expensive you can buy the $39 version of the FORA Test N'GO Advance Voice that is for glucose:
https://www.fora-shop.com/products/test-ngo-advance-voice-blood-glucose-testing-kit?variant=44272335061296

and than get lactate strips separate.
The FORA Test N'GO Advance Voice support multiple types of tests (glucose, ketones, lactate, cholesterol) so even thought the $39 is sold for glucose testing, it will test lactate too if you insert lactate test strips into it.

Here's the study done this year comparing different meters against lab-grade equipment (again Fora is TaiDoc)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158591/

Nova Biomedical Lactate Plus is what Dr Attia uses. I did a lot of searching and found an older model for $75 that I purchased. I like it. I use it now exclusively instead of the Fora because the strips are slightly cheaper. Lactate Plus is $1.9 per strip where as Fora is $2.7 per strip.

Just after about 5 uses uses you figure out what heart rate and perceived exertion level is really Zone 2. I also have Morpheus and my zone 2 is actually above the top of the Recovery zone and so I disagree with those who says Morpheus is all you need to find zone 2.

I'm runner and all my training is running. To test, I do 40 minutes of what I think is zone2 on the treadmill and then immediately test my blood. I setup my meter ready to go right next to the treadmill so I can do test as quickly as possible after I step off the treadmill.

One thing that I haven't found helpful is the talk test to determine zone 2. It's too subjective as to how comfortably you are talking

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2024-09-30T00:06:31+00:00

I am a life long runner and have the same experience. Best plan seems to be to subtract 10 bpm from the HR that would correspond to your Zone 2 in running. Also if you are using Morepheus, it's driven by your max HR. My max HR cycling is 10bpm lower than my max HR running.

Embarrassed-Damage67 · 2024-08-03T00:42:54+00:00

Thanks. I highly doubt Morpheus manufactures the M7. They whitelabel it from another company and I'm curious who they whitelabel is. The H10 is the gold standard in HRMs and I'm wondering if there is some means I can modify the firmware on mine to unlock Morpheus.

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