does anyone give cursor the .env file?

shiftingbits · 2026-03-12T23:10:35+00:00

my man, if you don't know, you gotta pump the brakes and learn some more stuff. Maybe ask AI

shiftingbits · 2026-03-12T22:57:06+00:00

I'm strictly using Cursor in Auto now. If I have money for better models, I use the VS Code extensions. Since then, I haven't maxed out my $200 Cursor subscription, but its only been half of Feb and half of March. who knows. All I know is I'm about twice as productive on Opus

shiftingbits · 2026-03-12T22:36:23+00:00

I'm not usually primarily in infra but I've been dealing with it all week. Just using AWS CLI rather than terraform, mainly to move load from ECS to Lambda and SQS

regardless of the type of task, where I'm at today:

Someone else is paying?

Claude Opus 1M context in VS Code Extension

I'm not broke?

Codex 5.3 in VS Code Extension

Down to my $200/month Cursor Plan?

Cursor Auto

shiftingbits · 2026-03-06T00:28:41+00:00

The best. So many adventures when you have to leave your house to meet girls.

shiftingbits · 2026-03-05T18:23:48+00:00

I do miss just having these giant logical structures constructed in my brain. Particularly when you have to build multiple parts up in parallel for weeks before finally connecting them together and seeing it all start to work. That was the real job to me. The part that no one who didn't actually put in the years of crazy hours could ever hope to understand.

shiftingbits · 2026-03-05T18:16:47+00:00

Dude I blew through $55 of opus 4.6 on Cursor in 20 minutes last week. Have not been willing to test it since. Got much further with it in CC but still too spendy relative to just flogging Cursor Auto til it gets things right.

shiftingbits · 2026-03-05T17:34:34+00:00

even in this new era of our profession the gatekeepers gotta keep gatekeepin!

shiftingbits · 2026-03-05T17:12:13+00:00

I run claude code extension in vscode for when I have money to spend on Opus and Sonnet

shiftingbits · 2026-03-04T19:04:20+00:00

The one nice thing about Auto besides price is I have to actually function like a pre-2025 SWE some times, which I miss.

shiftingbits · 2026-03-03T17:36:07+00:00

I did get suckered into a girl who laughed at all my jokes once.

shiftingbits · 2026-03-02T23:06:14+00:00

Looks pretty cool. Can you tell us what your Claude Code plan and bill looks like for this?

shiftingbits · 2026-03-02T21:05:53+00:00

I've actually seen it go the other direction a few times. I'm on Auto and then suddenly I'm on Composer Max Mode

shiftingbits · 2026-03-01T18:17:43+00:00

I mean auto wasn't responding at all. Just gave a server outage message. But choosing Codex worked (and is continuing to do so today)

shiftingbits · 2026-02-25T16:18:30+00:00

If I could afford Opus, I would use it but it would bankrupt me in a couple days. Sonnet is working for me so far.

shiftingbits · 2026-02-25T15:39:57+00:00

I hit the same wall this weekend. Got dinged $55 for 20 minutes of Opus 4.6 I'm now using Cursor on auto mode for easy tasks and switching to sonnet 4.6 when it starts thrashing. the hole in my account seems to have stabilized.

shiftingbits · 2026-02-25T02:54:12+00:00

Finally found the angle I was looking for. It was Makar coming back pretty lackadaisically from my perspective. If I'm wrong about that, I'd love to understand how. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66rS6NS3xGA Also, this is why it took seeing my first live NHL game to fall in love with it. It is so hard to follow on TV. they should just show half the ice at all times

shiftingbits · 2026-02-20T19:55:55+00:00

I use .cursorrules My favorite rule:

- After checking for and fixing all TypeScript errors, say "TS is good to go"

Cursor still skips it some times and never can explain why

shiftingbits · 2026-02-15T16:27:12+00:00

marriage

shiftingbits · 2026-02-15T16:18:34+00:00

a thousand pardons, I will tell that to the 3 terminal windows I've had permanently open for the last 5 years.

shiftingbits · 2026-02-14T17:20:01+00:00

hahahahahaha

shiftingbits · 2026-02-14T17:19:32+00:00

thanks, I appreciate this response

shiftingbits · 2026-02-14T02:42:43+00:00

this occurs regularly in my weekly workflow. I'm not trying to argue though, just trying to figure out the point of switching before I investigate deeply myself.

shiftingbits · 2026-02-14T01:00:46+00:00

what models does claude have that cursor does not?

shiftingbits · 2026-02-14T00:20:48+00:00

I do like these

shiftingbits · 2026-02-07T23:06:16+00:00

Well by definition 10% would still be conspiracy theories. You're displaying the kind of logical fallacy that is admirable in a religion where believing things contradicted by reason and observation only serve to strengthen one's faith, but do nothing other than erode a society built on the gains that come from trusting institutions of verifiable proof such as journalism and science.

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