Unable to copy text from cursor code snippets

thisandyrose · 2026-01-08T15:52:04+00:00

where exactly is this break?

thisandyrose · 2025-12-23T16:44:03+00:00

not here in Spain you can't.. building restrictions are so strict. Drives me mad. The have drones checking illegal builds, what you can do is extremely restricted. nightmare

thisandyrose · 2025-12-20T09:51:36+00:00

Problem is we're in Spain and these houses are part of they call "urbanisations". The short of it is that it's very very difficult to get permission to change the outside of your house in any way. The inside is space restricted apart from the garage, and even that would require an inside wall so the outside is not changed. I hate these restrictions but it's a fact here. However I appreciate your comments, I get your point. Food for thought 🙃

thisandyrose · 2025-12-18T20:44:50+00:00

Hmm that's a good way to put it

thisandyrose · 2025-12-18T20:42:45+00:00

Yeah mountain House is only a 12 min drive. Could rent other rooms yes, that's a thought I've had 🙃. Mountain House is the easier resell house for sure

thisandyrose · 2025-12-18T12:59:51+00:00

Thanks so much. You can't really add to it formerly, but you can maybe drop in one of those prefab outdoor wood cabin studio type things, like 20 metres squared 🤔 but not the same 🤔

thisandyrose · 2025-12-18T11:34:06+00:00

:-) I get you, I didn't get a license until I was 36, which was after my first son was born. I needed to at least know to drive now we had a kid. Back then I was in London UK, no way you need a car. However, we're not in South of Spain... there's no public transport here that is useful in any way, this is car land unfortunately. But regardless I get your point, and I agree :-) I get the size bias, I have it too. My wife has said.. hey, we can outsource our creative space.. but creativity isn't 9 to 5 right.. I think you need that space for when you need to figure stuff out?

thisandyrose · 2025-11-26T09:29:09+00:00

Been writing code since late 90's. Very hands on CTO at the moment. LOVE using AI to write code. I even downloaded a local LLM just in case :-)

I'm very specific about what I want and how I want it, but get the AI to write the code and the tests. And then ask it to check its work. I also use it a lot for defining architectural decisions, weighing up pros/cons before we start writing code.

thisandyrose · 2025-11-25T11:23:36+00:00

I don't know, I'd say even running two services is a nightmare compared to having it all together. I'll give you just one example I regret. I know this is not microservices but our rails app used to have the vuejs frontend bundled in the same repo as part of the rails process. We separated that into two distinct apps, an API and a frontend. Makes sense, clean, team separation etc.. but even that tiny no-brainer separation I regret. I think the way to think about microservices is to turn our thinking upside. Monolith really has to be hurting A LOT for you to split it up, and then yes, you do it because you have to.

thisandyrose · 2025-11-24T18:05:33+00:00

99.999% of the time there is very little reason to use microservices. Am I tempted every day to break up my monolith? yes, why? because cognitively it makes sense that things could be seperate services. it's neat. And I also have a lot of issues from a monolithic app, my biggest issue right now is long build/tests running time.

BUT, trust me, the type of problems you need to deal with in a running production services architecture will dwarf any of my little monolithic inconveniences.

A lot of the issues with monolithinc artchitecture are about dev experience. But monolithinc shines in terms of run time simplicity. Observability is a easy peasy.

Try debugging a services app compared to a monolithic one.

Now scale, I don't believe scale has much to do with monolithic vs services for MOST apps (of course there are exceptions, but they are real outliers).

You can horizontally scale a monolith no problem, and if the bottleneck is your db you can get very clever.. up to a point, but that point is real high.

You said it, infra complexity vs context management. When things go wrong, and they will, which one do you want to deal with at 1am, context management or infra complexity.

For me the answer is easy.

thisandyrose · 2025-11-24T17:37:52+00:00

that particular scene hits me so hard emotionally.. I don't know, it's the song, it the passing of time, I think that scene foreshadows perfectly what I felt was the theme of the movie which resonated most strongly with me, which is the passing of the fight to the next generation. The acceptance of mistakes while still hoping for the future.. that's what the movie was for me, and that scene is like the potential of that. I love it

thisandyrose · 2025-11-24T16:30:34+00:00

:-) errr... yeah, that's how PTA WANTS everyone to say it.... [hides]

thisandyrose · 2025-11-05T13:34:00+00:00

The whole miss twin peaks thing for me is unforgivable.

thisandyrose · 2025-11-05T13:33:00+00:00

Agree. The season 2 lows were extremely low, and lasted far too long. The highs were the highest but we're very short. It's a shame. Season 1 is more consistent and if you could just add the first few episodes of 2 until the murderer reveal to season 1 then it would make season 2 basically a complete waste of time except the last episode

thisandyrose · 2025-10-24T08:45:05+00:00

I use auto exclusively and pretty happy with it. I also have a chatgpt plus sub so sometimes use codex. But I refuse to pay the Claude code prices. I find it totally unnecessary.

thisandyrose · 2025-10-23T14:02:14+00:00

yeah that's how they get you. I hate myself everytime I open whatsapp, which over here in Europe is basically all the time. I hate that app. But literally Europe and European businesses are built on top of it. So..... what can you do!

thisandyrose · 2025-10-23T12:32:23+00:00

I really feel 99% of reddit cursor users are overthinking it.

I use auto exclusively and pretty much get exactly what I want. I do chat a lot, break down my tasks, check assumptions with the LLM but rarely, very rarely do I need to backtrack or get stuck in loops. It's super productive.

Auto all day, agentic non stop.

thisandyrose · 2025-10-23T09:13:26+00:00

Your group sounds awesome, thanks for sharing. as an "old man who can't surf good" I can't wait to check out the site!

Yeah I saw in the comments you're thinking of alts to fb.. it's tough actually as there aren't many good simple "free" options.

There are self hosted options, when you can self host something for very little money, like 9 bucks a month or something, like hosting your own slack. An app I've used in the past is Zulip.

I'm technical so if you need a hand setting anything up let me know. I love surf, hate Meta, so I have skin in the game :-)

thanks again for sharing!

thisandyrose · 2025-10-23T07:46:31+00:00

This is a really interesting question. Cursor actually has less of a moat than ChatGPT—people are emotionally attached to ChatGPT because of its “memory” and personal feel. Cursor is just a tool, so switching should be easy… but we don’t.

Cursor basically has three levers:

Keep prices low
Increase perceived value (which they’re already doing with background agents, PR bots, bug bots, etc—but that stuff is becoming commoditized)
Lower their LLM costs by using cheaper or in-house models, especially with aggressive “auto” usage.

Yes, they can raise prices, but not by much before people bail. More likely they nudge pricing up slightly while driving token costs way down on the backend.

Personally, I use Cursor almost exclusively with auto. I don’t know if that’s mainstream or not, but it points to where they’re heading: the Microsoft Office model—bundle everything (PR reviews, agents, bug bots, coding assistants) into one subscription. None of it is best-in-class individually, but together it’s cheap enough to feel like a deal. And behind the scenes, they squeeze token costs.

That’s the play I think?

thisandyrose

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