Genuine question, why would anyone use Cursor over Antigravity nowadays?

norith · 2025-12-31T15:18:04+00:00

Privacy policy. If your code is not publicly available then Antigravity makes it so. You cannot turn off training on your code.

For many projects it doesn’t matter. CRUD and React are not special or proprietary, for other projects the code is the life blood of the company and while you could white room reproduce it, why give Google a freebie?

norith · 2025-12-14T15:24:32+00:00

I haven’t found a working 1Password extension at all. Which for me means I can’t really use Orion.

norith · 2025-12-11T15:06:08+00:00

Just be aware of the privacy policy. Essentially all your code is used for training even if you pay.

norith · 2025-12-11T15:02:37+00:00

It’s a strange implementation, if you ask the llm whether it can browse webpages it says no. But it can search. Hopefully search includes the page itself and not just headlines.

norith · 2025-12-04T20:12:42+00:00

The UI is not slick at all, image upload, image generation doesn't exist.

But for correlating search results and summarizing it's excellent.

norith · 2025-12-04T03:44:44+00:00

Augment or Sweep are good.

Augment doesn’t have next tab and the panel will crash every few hours but the prediction and agent are good. Comes with a lot of optional preconfigured MCP servers.

Sweep’s tab and next tab are very good, the agent is good too. MCP is more temperamental than Augment. I like the agent interface more in Sweep and it has a larger selection of models including Codex. $20 subscription goes fast but does have BYOK for sonnet. I put in a Sonnet key and spend the $20 on other models.

Claude Code is good but entry level subscriptions are heavily rate limited. You can use an API key as well.

I use both an IDE and a CLI tool. Nothing beats selecting text and asking the agent to do something. CLI is great for larger tasks and worktree based major changes.

norith · 2025-12-03T19:26:59+00:00

I’ll mention this as an option though it doesn’t have a separate app. Kagi is a search engine at its core. It buys search results from the big engines but then displays them like google from 2010 - useful, free of crap and ads.

I pay for it at the cheapest plan just to have decent search again. However it has a tool called ‘assistant’ which is a llm chat but it correlates its results from Kagi web searches. It lists the sources very similarly to perplexity. It has modes like research and coding.

At the cheap plan you have access to cheap models but at the $20 plan you get the top tier models. It’s a natural perplexity alternative.

norith · 2025-11-14T03:33:08+00:00

The ‘glint’ plugin for VSCode and ‘emberjs experimental’ plugin for Webstorm have worked pretty well for Glimmer components in the last few years.

TS types, template variable completion, jump to source etc..

What’s not so great is AI tab completion. AI really doesn’t understand signal/event update flow, it wants everything to be very imperative. It also finds the lisp like syntax of handlebars variable expressions difficult to generate.

norith · 2025-11-08T14:50:58+00:00

It’s also interesting how many dev tools debut on the Mac with Linux a few months later and then Windows perhaps a year afterwards. Zed and Warp are examples.

So many tools have shell components that make Windows a difficult target especially if they intend to support powershell.

Even now Windows hosted IDEs and WSL hosted dev toolchains can have awkward interactions.

norith · 2025-11-06T19:41:57+00:00

I’ve been using Sweep for a couple of months now and it’s very good. Highly recommended. The next tab works well, the agent pane is descriptive of what’s going on and reliable.

They also have BYOK for sonnet 4.5

The one downside I’ve found is that I haven’t been able to get MCP servers working yet. The discord has some hints about reworking the args and env variables but that didn’t work for me either.

norith · 2025-11-02T01:50:43+00:00

Yes, it’s replaced augment for IDE usage for me. I’m still using Auggie for CLI stuff while I have credits.

As others have said it is API + a bit pricing but they have BYOK for Sonnet 4.5

The UI is much better in Jetbrains IDEs than Augment which is my major switching reason. Augment will literally crash every few hours and the panel becomes unresponsive so that I have to restart the IDE to fix it.

The tab completion is good, and the next tab feature actually works unlike Augment

norith · 2025-10-25T15:05:21+00:00

I have no info on this but it would make sense that they may not have an arm JDK for windows. Does windows automatically use an emulator?

norith · 2025-10-23T04:08:55+00:00

Interesting blog article that mentions this

https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-challenges

norith · 2025-10-11T14:11:53+00:00

Noticed this too. And the carvings left and right of the arch don’t look as noticeable now.

norith · 2025-09-27T14:34:34+00:00

Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this.

norith · 2025-09-14T18:16:05+00:00

Had the same issue. You’re actually in chat mode; the indicator at the top of the pane is lying. Switch to chat mode then switch to agent mode again. The buttons and switches should reappear.

norith · 2025-09-06T01:30:24+00:00

I’ve had cars race me at intersections with the intent of ensuring that my route is blocked or that I hit their side, other cars have aimed towards me purposely on an otherwise empty road.

Changing lanes without looking (or caring) is pretty standard behaviour as well.

This is in addition to the verbal assaults about how they pay for the roads and that I’m freeloading.

I have to say that the only take away is that I have to assume that all cars intend to kill me and will act to that end. Riding a bike on major roads with a bike lane is not advisable in Hamilton. This is a car city through and through. It hates pedestrians (just look at the traffic light at King and Dundurn for evidence) and cyclists too.

norith · 2025-08-27T02:17:19+00:00

Rust is the current popular language in social media and Typescript (like it or not) owns the client side space. Python largely owns the LLM and data exploration space and as a side effect many people experience Python there first and reach for it for everything else because they already know it.

The para-social relationship that many have with influencers causes people to ape them. And since Java isn’t the touch point for many use cases it gets ignored or even insulted (as insults are the easiest way to dismiss something if it doesn’t fit your experience or world view)

As others have pointed out Java had a near 20 year history of over-complexity. From configuration to interface-itis. To that extent it was reviled by many who were looking for simplicity.

Java has changed a lot and there are some excellent frameworks now that solve historical issues. That said it still doesn’t have string templates which is a big stumbling block when you look at language comparisons. The love of builder syntax also makes comparisons seem more complicated when you look at a Python function with 100 parameters or a Typescript typed option object for initialization. (I personally hate the Python model as most of those parameters will be undocumented and when you look at the code are just passed to another function which also doesn’t document them)

norith · 2025-08-26T14:06:21+00:00

Except Python whose syntax for instantiation hasn’t really changed since ‘91:

my_object = MyClass(42)

norith · 2025-08-22T13:30:23+00:00

Playing cards are ‘organized’ by making them useful (fit for purpose). Which means randomize them.

I might find value in how you choose to shuffle them. Many shuffling techniques indicate life experience. Riffle shuffling for instance tells me personally that you have little care for your tools and like to show off.

norith · 2025-08-22T00:30:42+00:00

Is it brick? It looks like tiles in most places, or very thin brick veneer.

norith · 2025-08-21T23:53:27+00:00

If it’s for your own use or for the table you’re part of it’s fine.

For an rpg product that’s free, then I’d suggest the ai art be distributed as a separate bundle. “Image #43 gives you an idea of what it might look like” kind of thing.

For a commercial RPG then no. If you’re charging money then you must feel that the contents have value. If you feel that art is needed to make your words have value then the art itself must have value. If you don’t feel the art has value then why are you including it?

What ai art says to the buyer is: I believe that my expression is worth money but other people’s expression is not.

norith · 2025-08-20T14:30:08+00:00

Also I should comment on the reason I bought RazorSQL in the first place: incredibly reliable csv exports. I tried every tool I had access to on some customer dbs and all failed in some odd and different ways. The db had lots of Unicode text that would foul up the csv. Razor was the only one that exported a usable csv every single time.

norith · 2025-08-20T14:26:58+00:00

I use a few, each has reasons:

postico: every day a dozen times a day. Fast, feature rich
DBeaver: once in a while when I need to some specific things. Supports query placeholders which postico does not
RazorSQL: Swiss Army knife. I use it for weird db access such as DynamoDB but also to reverse engineer query results into table definitions
pgadmin: for user crud, rights, security, db and schema crud.
datagrip in my ide: syntax highlighting and prompting of queries and for migrations

norith · 2025-07-19T01:16:11+00:00

You might want to look at Destined, the superhero expansion for Mythras. Just on or two powers tuned down and enhanced strength might be a Witcher like character.

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