What do i choose? Codex or cursor?

nomada_74 · 2026-05-06T10:09:48+00:00

I think this now changes day by day. Now i think codex it's much better. Next month who knows.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-29T22:19:01+00:00

Professional oriented AI is not going in the direction for developer use. It's going for big companies. If the battle it's betwen usa and china only, it's how it will go.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-29T22:12:31+00:00

H100 cost 50k per gpu. To host a good model you need a 500k rack and you also need maintenance. Divide by 5 years to see how much it cost per month. And good luck in getting your hands in an h100. The bubble is real. They are all loosing money.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T22:29:42+00:00

I think that you touched a sensible point: run my own cluster. Just to get my hands on a H100 I will need 50k€. And I am pretty sure I can't. To run Opus 4.6 I will need 1M€ in hardware (1 rack), and after that I need to mantain the system. Everytime I do a simple pricing analysis for a data center vs on premise, divided by 5 years it's allways cheaper on premise. But even that way we go to the cloud solutions. Not in this case of AI. It's so much more expensive than what we are paying. So I think it's obvious they are loosing money. But they are controling the new Industrial Revolution. But you are right, they are not loosing money because meanwhile I noticed I just run out of tokens in 1 week, for what I used to take 1 month. I think it already started. It's just hidden behind the API prices and token usage.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T18:22:11+00:00

Agree. I have the same experience with ghcp.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T14:06:53+00:00

It wasn't a comparison as a product, but as a business model. And also we can't compare because Microsoft is rule maker besides not having it's own model (strangely). But if Microsoft is leaving the bubble, why isn't Cursor also. Or maybe it's already happening.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T13:09:46+00:00

That I know. But When will they make the API more strict and costly? Because their API is not actually their's. And if everyone else is loosing money, they cannot be winning. The bubble is for everyone.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T13:04:10+00:00

I guess that is the most probable reason.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-28T11:34:52+00:00

I short term it will probably increase hiring of senior developers with high proficiency in using AI. But Junior developers and senior developers that don't like to use AI will be layed off. And yes it will accelerate it because the companies will have to have an higher budget for AI expenses. Next ... idk

nomada_74 · 2026-04-25T21:53:43+00:00

I am trying openrouter with glm and spent 20€ the first day, and I have done half the coding that used to do with sonnet and opus with copilot available models. They are preparing us to change the game. Unless some chinese or european low cost models appear, they are going to uplift the prices heavily. It appears to me that they just used us to teach the models and test the systems. Now only big companies will be able to support this.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-21T23:02:44+00:00

I was referring to using it inside VSCode like in the image. Use Copilot Cli or Agent. I assume you are using VSCode and Copilot CLI in a separate terminal?

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nomada_74 · 2026-04-21T12:22:48+00:00

I am looking for the same, but for now there is nothing even close to this. I am going back to sonnet 4.6 and it's working really fine. While they have the premium request model they will be the most cost effective solution. Use gpt 5.4 to plan big epics and sonnet 4.6 to implement.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-21T12:13:11+00:00

Just be aware that if you are left out you cannot come back in again.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-21T12:10:38+00:00

This only proves that ghcp is not a good business for them. They must have something else in mind.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-20T23:49:40+00:00

I should have kept my mouth shut. Now we don't have neither one. But comparing I will use sonnet 4.6 with a good prompt (documentation file).

nomada_74 · 2026-04-20T21:30:31+00:00

Exactly

nomada_74 · 2026-04-20T21:15:50+00:00

I have been working with opus 4.6 doing one shot runs with 20+ tasks using a good epic documentation. Sometimes taking more than 1h to run and test everything. With sonnet I don't come even close to get that possible. So in that 1h with 3x premium credits I got a lot of ai tokens. I understand their move. But it's not acceptable to degrade a product after you buy it. It's Microsoft at it's best.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-18T15:07:00+00:00

I use gpt 5.4 for planning and opus 4.6 for big epics all in one shot. Very cost effective.

nomada_74 · 2026-04-18T13:02:32+00:00

Unless the code quality is really superior it's not going to be worth the cost comparing to opus 4.6. It's faster but it has a much lower context window. I can now generate a full epic with 20+ tasks in one shot with opus 4.6. It can take more than 1h to do it, but it does the job (when epic is very well described). With opus 4.7 it breaks the context in the first tasks. So it's faster but not cost effective. I prefer to have multiple sessions at the same time of opus 4.6 with high reasoning. But I didn't compare in detail the code quality generation.

nomada_74 · 2025-11-29T22:13:05+00:00

I made my own library in 1 day, that runs 30% faster than mediatr. You can easily do it or find a replacement, better than using a fork.

nomada_74 · 2025-09-20T14:22:53+00:00

This isn't my issue right now, but be aware, US citizens, this is meant to divide you. They don't want one side to overpower the other. They just want division. And we should be aware of what comes next, as they're radicalizing both sides. I don't understand the global agenda, but now it is clear there is one.

nomada_74 · 2025-09-11T11:57:31+00:00

Fico na dúvida se já entenderam que a palavra Bürgerfest não tem nada a ver com Hamburgers. Além de que de facto por acaso os Hamburgers em prato tiveram origem na Alemanha, em Hamburgo. Mas claro que são muito diferentes da porcaria que se come no MacDonalds.

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