It's the thing you do most with selected text and it removes the need to use a keyboard shortcut.
Selecting text with no purpose and being worried that it's a security hole is like saying "I leave my car on the street with the keys in it therefore nobody should have keys".
I'd argue it's more like "looking at your keys while you're picking them". Selecting text is also known as highlighting and some people highlight text while reading / thinking.
Or is a huge surprise (to the typical user) that highlighting text BY ITSELF in one window exposes that information for JavaScript running in a different application (like the browser). It’s like knowing that my smart TV is fingerprinting my viewing habits.
Isn’t the biggest security risk from copy and pasting passwords from a “secure” location to another one?
It looks like with modern browsers, reading the clipboard is gated behind some restrictions. Whew.
Javascript doesn't have access to the clipboard without explicit user actions. And the clipboard might still contain sensitive info regardless of it was something recently highlighted, or something recently explicitly copied.
10X. 100X. I have very, very little time for programming anymore, but I have a lot of ideas for things I never had time to make.
In the last 6 months I've built (with the $20/mo plan from Cursor):
- shared tasks app that tracks fleet maintenance on my farm, with a personal tasks view. We can now search part numbers by equipment or refer back to previous work to look up invoices, as well as actually get jobs lined up for when we have help so they aren't sitting there staring at the walls because nobody has a list of what to do next.
- LoRa telemetry mesh for soil moisture sensors, gate motion sensors, waterbowl temperature and level sensors. This would have taken me months to build and debug, Cursor had it done in minutes, I prototyped and then punched up some boards on kicad and ordered them from JLCPCB. Took a couple days to debug them into a workable state and was in place for winter.
- Fertilizer planning application for figuring out our fertilizer buy while prices are low, based on:
- Soil sampler truck application for Android tablet, that interfaces a sub-3m Garmin GPS connected via bluetooth and tracks all the sample site for the sample truck as samples are punched, so we can go back to the same spot every year and determine soil regeneration results.
- Android application to track and calculate loads for silage feeding of cattle, since as you feed you'll want to rebalance the grain ration as you refill, and you'll often have silage at X %age left on, this app lets you enter the mix you want and calculates how much of each to add in order to rebalance the leftovers on the truck to the new ration. I actually did this one on my laptop while I was feeding cattle over a week.
- An alert app to watch MQTT and set phone alarms off if an alert pops up for telemetry problems or intrusion alerts on above LoRa mesh.
Currently working on a system that lets me run multiple Cursor sessions on a workstation and interact with the chats remotely over my phone so I can work on projects while I'm running equipment or doing chores.
A lot of people hate AI, and for a lot of things I totally get it. Frankly, the ethics of AI and the horrible uses people are finding for it scares the hell out of me. But I would never have found time to do any one of these items before AI. I used to run software projects when I was an IT nerd, so I know how program well enough to be dangerous. I'm enjoying having a team back.
So I can't see bothering with this when I pumped 260M tokens through running in Auto mode on a $20/mo Cursor plan. It was my first month of a paid subscription, if that means anything. Maybe someone can explain how this works for them?
Frankly, I don't understand it at all, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
> So I can't see bothering with this when I pumped 260M tokens through running in Auto mode on a $20/mo Cursor plan. It was my first month of a paid subscription, if that means anything. Maybe someone can explain how this works for them?
They're running at a loss and covering up the losses using VC?
> Frankly, I don't understand it at all, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I think that the providers are going to wait until there are a significant number of users that simply cannot function in any way without the subscription, and then jack up the prices.
After all, I can all but guarantee that even the senior devs at most places now won't be able to function if every single tool or IDE provided by a corporate (like VSCode) was yanked from them.
Myself, you can scrub my main dev desktop of every corporate offering, and I might not even notice (emacs or neovim, plugins like Slime, Lsp plugins, etc) is what I am using daily, along with programming languages.
My problem with Gemini is how token hungry it is. It does a good job but it ends up being more expensive than any other model because it's so yappy. It sits there and argues with itself and outputs the whole movie.
Selecting text with no purpose and being worried that it's a security hole is like saying "I leave my car on the street with the keys in it therefore nobody should have keys".
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