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I don't see how it makes sense to use models outside of Grok or Composer in cursor unless you like the tooling to such degree that you're willing to pay out the
by gexla 19d ago
I don't see how it makes sense to use models outside of Grok or Composer in cursor unless you like the tooling to such degree that you're willing to pay out the nose for access to OpenAI and Anthropic to use with that tooling. And Codex is regularly scoring towards the top among harnesses, so you might as well use the best harness available for the given model. I'm happy with Grok and Composer in Cursor. If Cursor wants to add more models, they should host more open models.
- herrvogel- 19d agoIs there a good place for harness comparison/scoring?
- reilly3000 19d agohttps://www.harness-bench.ai/leaderboard.html https://www.harness-bench.ai/leaderboard.html This provides a method, but the data looks stale and perhaps a bit thin compared to say, Cursor, or even AntiGravity data.
- alainchabat 19d agonever heard of nanobot. how reliable is this benchmark?
- reilly3000 19d agoI can’t speak to the veracity of the benchmarks but it appears their methodology is sound. Nanobot has 47k stars, fwiw https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot It has been more of an OpenClaw or Hermes alternative than a coding agent like OpenCode or Pi, so it’s likely to do well given less context bloat.
- cheeze 19d agoIMO it's not. It's benchmarking GPT 5.4 and Opus 4.6. It's also missing Claude Code... one of the most popular harnesses (the most?)
- hirako2000 19d agoNo Pi, no Aider either.
- chr15m 19d agoThe reason it makes sense is because different models are better at different things. Allowing yourself to be locked in to a particular model by these companies is a bad idea and will lead to worse outcomes for yourself and the market as a whole.
- ryanjshaw 19d agoBecause I pay $60 per month and not using the included API tokens on other models is wasteful.
- lawrjone 19d agoYou’d use it because until recently Cursor had the best setup for cloud agents and visual verification and a bunch of other features outside of the harness.