Matteo Avalle

Matteo Avalle

Co-Founder, Eng. Director, Code Artisan
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Cursor

What's great

In spite of the pricing strategy issues, it became my de-facto daily driver. I'm so used to Cursor harness I'm struggling to even use its competitors well enough to make comparisons! :D Great job!

What needs improvement

Ever since cursor launch, I still get occasional freezes where I'm forced to reboot the app to make it work

vs Alternatives

I find so much more useful to see what is happening while cursor is answering. That, combined with the extremely good harness, made it quite tough to beat

Do multi-location edits work reliably on large codebases?

the bigger the codebase, the worse the performance is, overall. this can be overcome by making cursor to focus on specific folders only, and that improves quite a bit its performance, but overall I open cursor on huge multirepo codebases only when I need to code a well-defined multi-repo flow. That's where it struggles the most and it needs most guidance, but it's still feasible. However, I love how it's so easy to just "open different cursor workspaces on different subfolders" as a way to cope with that

How useful is automated code review feedback in pull requests?

I confess I use a different product with respect of that. Cursor just isn't providing informative enough feedback in there with respect to competitors, and also the fact these analysis cost extra is messing with my current budgeting situation

Is privacy mode sufficient for sensitive or proprietary code?

I'm lucky to work for a company that is pretty tolerant on this. But, overall, that's one of cursor main pain points. ever since it lost its BYOK support, that became a problem. I can only use it in specific environment, due to this

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