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0 pointskoakuma-chan1y ago0 comments

Just the fact that it’s not a VSCode fork or extension already makes it superior, but there is more: It is general purpose, you can ask it to do pretty much whatever you want, not limited to coding. It does not have autocompletion, which I believe only gets in the way (suggestions interfere with your own thinking).

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danielbln1y ago· 3 in thread

I can have cline control and terminal command, it's by no means limited to editing code. On the flip side, if you do edit codey it can lean in the LSP and various other IDE diagnostics to produce better code more efficiently.

Claude Code is pretty great, but I find Cline better (plus I can use Gemini 2.5 with it and am not limited to Anthropic only).

koakuma-chanOP1y ago

Maybe Cline isn’t inherently limited to coding, but you still have to open VSCode. Whereas I often use Claude Code for things that have nothing to do with text editing, for example dealing with ffmpeg.

koakuma-chanOP1y ago

I doubt that LSP and IDE diagnostics are better than running your compiler (e.g. tsc) and looking at the output, which Claude Code does.

danielbln1y ago

Well, that might be alright for Typescript, less so for Python. Of course, Claude Code can run the linters and type checkers manually, the IDE just does it without the extra LLM call.

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jstanley1y ago· 2 in thread

> suggestions interfere with your own thinking

This definitely happens, but it's worth it. When you and Cursor are on the same page the autocomplete is a magical experience.

koakuma-chanOP1y ago

I think you’re referring to that time when you’re writing boilerplate and your LLM is able to guess what you want to write, and it does feel good, yes, but my point is that autocomplete can steer you away from writing unique, original and potentially better code than what it suggests.

jstanley1y ago

It's also good when you're making the "same" change in a bunch of different places, after you do it by hand a couple of times it gets the idea and you can just keep pressing Tab.

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