32 engineers on Hacker News describe using Cursor first-hand: 10 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Been using Cursor for a long time and happy with it until they started to force Grok down our throats.”
mixed · production · guhcampos · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Cursor and Codex but the agents keep making regressions and breaking rules.”
regret · personal · nilirl · 2026-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as a heavy daily user of Cursor). It's been the perfect in-between of coding by hand and strictly vibe coding for me.”
endorse · personal · whicks · 2026-04-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am continuing to have success using Cursor's Auto model, and GPT-5.1 with extremely long conversations.”
endorse · personal · elliotto · 2026-01-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening”
endorse · production · JoshGlazebrook · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Cursor heavily for over a year now (on the Ultra plan currently).”
endorse · production · 1 yr · mat_b · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently reviewed a PR heavily written by Cursor that had statements like this.”
regret · production · EdwardDiego · 2025-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Neither tool is worth paying even $20 a month for when it comes to Elixir, that's how little value I get out of them”
regret · personal · dns_snek · 2025-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With cursor, I had something displaying in a really weird way (plotting a map in js), and I gave it a screenshot and it fixed it immediately.”
endorse · personal · exe34 · 2025-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Tab autocomplete in Cursor is surprisingly good at guessing what I want to log when I type slog.Info. I'm enjoying that time save.”
endorse · production · physicles · 2025-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been very happy with the Cursor experience, big improvement in UX from my perspective.”
endorse · personal · lowkj · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Cursor for these writing use cases for a while (markdown, not code). Select part, ask for edits. It's quite handy.”
endorse · personal · scosman · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Cursor extensively these past few months, for anything ranging from scaffolding to complex UIs.”
endorse · personal · friggeri · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I couldn't get it to open projects I have in WSL2 and I kind of gave up at that point.”
regret · personal · written-beyond · 2024-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just use the Cursor IDE though, it's fabulous if you already use VSCode.”
endorse · personal · johnfn · 2023-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched from Cursor to Claude Code (via T3.codes) because I was running out of usage on Grok 4.7.”
neutral · personal · senordevnyc · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This allows us to use several different model families through Claude, cursor and codex without having to copy paste everywhere.”
neutral · production · naw103 · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use cursor at work and i'm at the $20/month plan.”
neutral · production · znpy · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Argon since it's been available in Cursor and I really like it”
neutral · personal · nater5000 · 2026-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Cursor at work, so it was just a matter of picking a different model for me”
neutral · production · nater5000 · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use cursor and stay mainly in the Agent window crafting prompts and validating functionality.”
neutral · production · vibepreflight · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every single bead (epic, ticket) and every single line of code has been written by AI (using a mix of claude, codex, cursor-agent/composer-1).”
neutral · personal · rahimnathwani · 2025-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Copilot, Cursor, then CC for a little more than a year now.”
neutral · production · 1 yr · dnw · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using composer-1 in Cursor for a few weeks and also switching back and forth between it, Gemini Flash 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.2.”
neutral · production · santoriv · 2025-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did give up on cursor mostly because basedpyright was very counterproductive for me.”
neutral · personal · gwking · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the ty extension with Cursor for weeks and am having trouble reproducing right now.”
neutral · personal · charliermarsh · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Trying to install the ty extension on the current version of Cursor says it is not compatible”
neutral · personal · modeless · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Maybe I just use cursor too much and I've forgotten the short-hand they were looking for.”
neutral · personal · silvercymbals · 2025-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also lost access to Copilot when we switched to Cursor so I can't check at the moment.”
neutral · production · jmisavage · 2025-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally jumped between Rider and Cursor for a while, and finally settled with Rider.”
neutral · personal · raincole · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Cursor, but I am a vim user at heart.”
neutral · personal · toisanji · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“challenged myself to build a quick Chrome Extension in a weekend using Cursor (and avante.nvim)”
neutral · personal · bojangleslover · 2024-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?