I'll never forget the run-in I had with this corner of the labor market:

Back about 15 years ago I was running a small business in the auto industry. A guy who did deliveries for us (entire job: driving cars to people) who was in his early 20s found himself in a very minor fender-bender -- he rear-ended someone else. He claimed his twisted his ankle from the jolt (based on where he was resting his foot). Fine, no big deal.

He went to see a doctor shortly afterwards and immediately filed for a Worker's Comp claim. He then kept seeing that doctor and within a few weeks was given...permanent disability. Literally got a doctor to say he'd never be able to work again. Full sign-off. He of course was seen walking around just fine a few months later.

Absolute insanity.

Could be an issue with your mic (clogged? weak connection?). I just installed and used it and the app works perfectly for me and picks up birds that are calling faintly and in the distance.

Like a caveman! :)

I actually haven't explored the inline autocomplete space that much yet. I really like Cursor Tab (or Supermaven or even plain 'ol Copilot) -- they all seem really good. I'm sure there's a Cline equivalent out there, but I don't know what it is (yet).

I've played with Shopify for many years and it just can't do some of the low-level stuff I want it to do without badly mangling how product taxonomy works. Coins are a different kind of beast than typical retail and if I'm going to be writing code anyway, I'd rather write my own code (vs. writing code "on the shopify platform").

The really sensitive stuff - financial stuff - they handle through checkout (and I don't need anything special there), so I've really just written my own catalog & front-end.

Cursor changed their pricing recently and now charge a 20% markup on LLM API calls to use their "Max" models (which from what I gather are the full extent of the LLM context windows you get in the API anyway).

I also don't love that Cursor generally plays "context compression" games since they have an incentive to keep their costs minimal. I just don't love any of these tools that try to be a bit too smart as a middleman between you and the LLM (where smart is often defined as 'try to save us the most money or be maximally efficient without the user noticing').

Cline also tries to be smart, but it's all for the benefit of the user. I like the transparent pricing -- you bring your own API key so you're paying the underlying API costs without a middle man markup.

Am I being pennywise and should I just use Cursor directly? Maybe...but I've found my Cline results to be generally better for the more complex queries.