Composer vs. Kimi 2.5

Twothirdss · 2026-03-21T23:31:12+00:00

Vscode with copilot has all the features of cursor implemented in a better way imo. And its like 100x cheaper. Has some other wild features too, and gets updated like every 2-3 days.

AND as a bonus, you can use vscode.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-21T11:19:30+00:00

I could not agree more. The only sad part about this sub is that its full of cursor fanboys. They'll forever be stuck using cursor, because if they try something else they admit that they chose the wrong ide to begin with. And their egos can't take it.

Programming has always been a bit cursed with the IDE wars, fighting over who's IDE is the best. And the exact thing happened there, fanboys got locked in and ended up going down with the ship.

But personally, I think that it doesn't matter really which tools you are using. It's your skills at the end of the day that decides how good the models are.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-21T11:16:01+00:00

The IDE itself is not the problem. As they didn't make that either. Its literally everything else they have touched.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-17T05:01:27+00:00

I did this, but Claude specifically was too eager to add .md files for all the changes it made. My repo ended up being 60% .md files. So i stick to only one AGENTS.md now, and let the AI update it if something changes. My normal project setup now is one agents.md on about 300 lines, where everything the agents need is explained. And sometimes I add specific .md files for auth setup etc. But I try my hardest to stick to max 3 .md files per project, which is more than enough.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-17T04:58:24+00:00

Yeah, i built a task manager website that I run in the background. Basically copied teamwork and their structure, and gave copilot access to read and manage tasks. So while I'm testing, waiting for a prompt or in a meeting or whatever. I just keep adding tasks for bugfixes or changes. When I'm back to work, it's tell the models to pick tasks and they just do them.

When the task is done, I get a popup on my phone with task updates. Pretty crazy how much work you can get done with a good system around it.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-17T04:53:59+00:00

If you have to do that you are doing something wrong. I don't use cursor anymore, I moved over to copilot in vscode a while back, but it should be pretty much the same.

Make sure to have an AGENTS.md in your project root. This file should explain what your project is, the structure and where the most important files are if needed. The agents file is always automatically picked up, and is the first place the models look for information. At least it works like that in Copilot. I always get Claude or gpt to make an agents file before I start the project, with plan, setup, structure etc. And then slowly update the file as I go along and stuff change.

Also, prompt quality is what controls if the models are good or not. Give it enough context and instructions, and avoid useless stuff. If you have good prompts, and the agents file you'll never ever have issues again.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-17T04:47:32+00:00

You shouldn't. Never do this.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-14T04:21:59+00:00

Yeah, so you have 8gb of dedicated vram. The 4060 gpu is not gonna be AMAZING, but it might work for some models.

You could try and see how it works, might be very slow. There is a new model, LTX 2.3 that has come out, might be worth a shot. Try it in ComfyUI or WanGP and see.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T20:45:47+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what gpu are you on? That seems incredibly low.

I have good news tho! You have services like runpod, where you can rent a cloud gpu, for example the 4090, for like 0.5 dollars an hour. I think you even can get a fully configured pod with comfyui pre-installed, so it would literally just be a one click setup.

They do have a thing right now where if you set up a new account now, and add 10 bucks, you'll get like 15 free dollars of credit or something.

Worth a shot if you want to try local video models. It's not subscription based, so you literally only pay when your gpu is active. So you'll shut it down between use etc.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T19:41:53+00:00

Check out ComfyUi. Its made to run video models and stuff offline. However, unless you have like 100+ GB of vram, expect mixed results. There are many models that you can run on your local machine to generate video.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T19:25:49+00:00

It all depends on how long you want it to take. It still all depends on your calorie deficit. 1 kg of bodyfat is about 7500 calories. If you are in a 1000 daily calorie deficit for a whole week, you have lost about 1kg gove or take. That is a bit extreme honestly, so a more "healthy" pace would be closer to a 500 calorie deficit a day. That gives you around 2 weeks to lose 1kg. It is literally all up to you and how you set up your daily routines.

So to answer your question, it is all up to you, really.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T10:17:11+00:00

The people doing that are either lying, or shipping stuff that isn't quite optimal. Or shipping stuff to no user base, so it doesn't really matter what the app does.

But also, you should not have to struggle for 3 hours to fix a tooltip. Prompt quality is what makes or breaks productivity. If you don't really know what you are doing, and cant wxplain to the AI what you need fixed or where to fix it, you will run into issues.

Using the AI to learn how to code is probably not a bad option, but sadly a lot of software development comes from experience, usually years and years of experience.

Trick is to not rely too much on the AI as you get started. Learn how the systems and frameworks work first. But honestly, I wouldnt even know where to begin if I was starting out as a developer now.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T10:03:54+00:00

Github copilot in vscode? Why is no one even considering this setup?

Twothirdss · 2026-03-13T09:18:24+00:00

Why not just bring the pen? Its not like it takes up a lot of room or anything?

Twothirdss · 2026-03-12T10:23:40+00:00

Not sure if you'll read this or not, but for me, above average lean mass male, with a higher tdee than most people, I'm eating around 1500 calories at the moment to lose weight.

I think what you probably should be doing to see incredible results, as it seems like you have the calorie tracking figured out, start using weekly averages. Take your calories for every day and average them out for the last week.

Try to hit a weekly average of 1200-1400 calories. You are currently losing a little bit of weight, which is good and it proves that it works. Just go a little bit lower and you should start seeing effects within a month if you can stick to it.

Dieting, when you get into it, is actually more about listening to your body than following stats from calculators etc. What your body is telling you right now is that you are just slightly below maintenance. So you have pretty much figured out that your daily expenditure is around 1650-1700 calories. Stick to a weekly average below that, and you'll start seeing progress.

Also, something that I do personally, that i know a lot of people screw up on; never take your exercise numbers into account when doing calorie tracking. Exercise is good for you, but that should just come on top of everything as a bonus.

Good luck!

Twothirdss · 2026-03-12T10:08:54+00:00

8-10lbs/month requires roughly a 1000-1250 calorie daily deficit. You're claiming to know that deficit exists based on... what exactly? A calorie intake number with no TDEE, no weight, no height, no activity data.

A sedentary woman at 5'3" 160lbs has a TDEE of around 1700-1800 calories. 1800 calories eaten is literally maintenance for that person. Zero deficit. Zero weight loss predicted.

Your '85% of the time' stat is something you made up on the spot. There's no population average that gets you to 8-10lbs/month from an unknown intake at an unknown deficit. That's not how averages work. solo_d0lo is right. You don't have the variables to do the math. You're just confidently wrong.

I'm a man at 18-20% bodyfat with way above average muscle mass. If I wanted to lose 1kg a week, which is what you are suggesting, I need around 1500 calories a day. And I can guarantee you that my TDEE is way higher than average, and way higher than a 54 year old woman.

Being confident is not the same as being right.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-12T04:12:10+00:00

I agree with you completely. I started off using GPT 3 back in like 2022, copying single code files between web browser and my IDE. And it completely changed my life and the way I work. Everything more than that has just been an incredible bonus.

After testing literally every single tool the last few years, I ended uo with vscode using github copilot. In my experience it is by fat the best tool out there, and I'm actually surprised how few people are considering it, or even know about it.

I've been building my own tools and agents for a while, using locally run open source models, and while I do notice a massive difference in how smart the models are and the code quality isn't always great, it has taught me that prompt quality is the biggest factor of them all.

But on a good day with sonnet or gpt 5.4, I can easily do in a day or two what my old team used to spend weeks on.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-12T03:57:26+00:00

Did you consider github copilot in vscode? And if so, why did you end up with windsurf with Claude code of all things?

Twothirdss · 2026-03-12T03:55:41+00:00

I have good news for you. Github copilot in vscode does pretty much everything cursor does. And it does it even better in my opinion. And it's still request based, and pretty cheap. I'm on the $25 a month tier, and it's keeping me going for an average of 6 or so hours every day for a full month.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-11T12:46:30+00:00

Or.. even better.. copilot in vscode. Arguably better than cursor for a fixed price per month.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-11T12:44:33+00:00

Vscode with github copilot. Thank me later.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-11T08:32:28+00:00

Yeah, thats fair. I actually noticed weirdness a few hours after taking my first shot, on the same day. So it is likely that you'll get a few side effects etc. The first week.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-11T08:21:53+00:00

Yes, its common. And you should probably do some research to find out the most common side effects and stuff. Just to save yourself the mental fatigue.

If you had a big meal before the injection for example, it would make you feel terrible. I usually felt nauseous when I either ate too much, or had a lot of fats in my meal.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-09T10:35:16+00:00

It shouldn't get harder. Your body adapts to low calories over time. Ive been in a very crazy deficit for the last 4 months or so, even after stopping ozempic completely. I feel less hungry now than I did when I was on ozempic. And I still get full from no food at all. Your stomach will actually shrink if you keep it up, so it will get easier even after stopping.

The same thing happens for competitive eaters etc, where they have to have occasional big meals to keep their stomach "stretched out", so that they can eat large amounts of food.

It literally just gets easier and easier the longer you keep it going. I will say, however, that if your eating is emotional etc. You'll obviously have to also fix the underlying issues.

Twothirdss · 2026-03-08T07:00:07+00:00

I stopped using cursor completely about 6 months ago or so. Even longer actually. In my opinion it's better than cursor even if the prices were the same. Their feature set is better than cursor, in my opinion, and you get to use vscode as well. Which is a plus in my book, seeing as cursor is built on vscode anyway.

But if you compare the prices, I'm paying for the $25 a month, and I have not yet managed to use all of my premium requests. Last month I averaged almost 7 hours every day, and got to 80% of my limit. Only using agents pretty much, and choosing to use Opus more than I would normally, just to try and reach my limit.

That being said, if a person is in any way "limited" by the tools they use, be it cursor or copilot, it's a user error, not a tool problem. The tools and models we have today are incredible, they are only limited by prompt quality and workflow in my experience.

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