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(1) Aside from having a worse (sorry, “lighter weight”) editor, how is this functionally different from Cursor?

(2) A Microsoft VP of product spends enough time writing code to be a relevant testimonial?

Sometimes worse is better. I haven't used it a lot yet, but so far I quite like this reduced focus on editing - I see this as close to the sweet spot of vibe coding, in between Claude Code and a full editor/IDE, whereby I generally trust the agent to right the code, but just want a simple editor to steer it more effectively.

I see this similarly to the way I would have a work session with a more junior dev where sometimes during the chat I would "drop down in abstraction" to show them how I'd code a specific function, but I don't want to take over - I'm giving them a bit of direction, and it's up to them to either keep my code or ignore/rewrite it to better suit their approach.

I get that it’s a different mode, but if you ever drop into editing, why would you ever want a worse (or just unfamiliar) editor? How does that improve the agent mode? If my junior dev only had Notepad installed, I would get them to install a better editor, I wouldn’t say “it’s great you only have Notepad, so we can focus on our conversation”.

Well, Notepad is probably too much of a downgrade, but I do often prefer something simpler like Sublime rather than my fully extensionized VS Code, which I do like, but has a ton of visual clutter which I only need when I'm in a developer mindset rather than a vibing mindset.

For me, the USP Warp used to have was generating shell commands from prompts inside the terminal - but Cursor has had this in its embedded terminal for a while now so increasingly I find myself using Ghostty instead

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