Readit NewsFrom that point of view what’s happening in physics today is no surprise, but it is a bit depressing: we’ve probably passed the level of complexity where models are useful and are now adding detail that make them less so. I guess you can see it as a form of overfitting, like when less scrupulous AI researchers use the test set for validation.
The other month I logged in to view them as I do every so often and yahoo had purged the entire archive. Like 20MB worth of emails gone.
Apparently they have a policy if you do not log in in a year of time they will delete everything with no way to recover.
I can’t imagine the decision making to put this policy in nor could I ever imagine using yahoo email again for any purpose whatsoever.
Right now I am using nginx with the image_filter module + caching to do this.
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Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. First, the whole process takes a hell of a lot of time. Second, the learning curve is steep: you have to work through the terminal and type commands.
And the outcome is exactly the same as with the Claude that’s built into Cursor—only slower, less clear, and the generated code is harder to review afterward. I don’t know… At this point my only impression is that all those influencers in the comments are either sponsored, or they’ve already shelled out their $200 and are now defending their choice. Or they simply haven’t used Cursor enough to figure out how to get the most out of it.
I still can’t see any real advantage to Claude Code, other than supposedly higher limits. I don’t get it. I’ve already paid for Claude Code, and I’m also paying for Cursor Pro, which is another $200, but I’m more productive with Cursor so far.
I’ve been programming for 18 years, write a ton of code every single day, and I can say Cursor gives me more. I switch between Gemini 2.5 Pro—when I need to handle tasks with a big, long context—and Claude 4.0 for routine stuff.
So no one has convinced me yet, and I haven’t seen any other benefit. Maybe later… I don’t know.
You are absolutely right. A large portion are influencers (I would estimate around 95% of those you see on YouTube and forums) that are full of hype. I think most are not affiliated with Anthropic or any vendor, they are just trying to sell a course, ebook or some "get rich with AI" scheme.
What I appreciate about Claude Code:
- Since it is a terminal/CLI tool it can be run headlessly from cron jobs or scripts. This makes it easy to automate.
- I appreciate the predictable pricing model. A flat monthly fee gives me access to Claude Sonnet and Opus 4 in five-hour sessions each with its own usage limit that resets at the start of a new session. There is a fair use policy of around 50 sessions per month, but I haven’t hit that yet. I deliberately run only one instance at a time as I prefer to use it responsibly unlike some of the "vibe" influencers who seem to push it to the limit.
That's it. Despite being a CLI based tool, Claude Code is remarkably out of the box for what it offers.
That said, no coding agent I have encountered can fully ingest a large inconsistent legacy codebase especially one with mixed architectures that accumulated over years. This limitation is mainly due to context size constraints, but I expect this to improve as context windows grow.