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Noticed recently they keep opening their “Agents” window when the project was last opened in the VSCode fork window in the hopes I’ll just continue working in that when the UI is totally different and missing things I need.

For a professional tool it’s getting egregious how little respect they have for my workflows and flow state they way they keep moving, changing iconography and flipping switches of the UI.

It’s clearly being ran by someone who comes from a social app or sales app growth hacking background.

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> It’s clearly being ran by someone who comes from a social app or sales app growth hacking background.

I fixed that by using cursor the agent but not the UI.

I'm just running cursor in GNU Emacs via agent-shell (https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell). Their cli client (aptly named "agent") supports ACP (agent client protocol) so the UI can be skipped altogether.

I know this sounds like a meme ("use x in emacs") but at this point at the very least i can keep my workflows and my UI all the same and focus on my work rather than "where did $company put $feature this month".

I’ve personally never experienced that issue with Cursor. I never use the agents window and it always shows me the editor.

You're not in the A/B test. I've never opened the agents window consensually.

It seems obvious that they plan to eventually drop VSCode. I'd be willing to take them up on that offer. Their agent window is genuinely better as a starting point.

What annoys me is how little they want to integrate with ...anything. Wanna open a link in your default browser? Use our built-in chromium fork, we insist. Wanna open a location in Zed? No, please use our half-baked editor re-implementation. Wanna open a location in Cursors own vscode-based editor? You can't. Managed to work around that somehow? We changed your files to "Worktree TS", disabling all your language servers. It's like programming on an iPhone.

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