<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">Hi, senior developer here.</p><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">I'm a full-stack web developer working mainly with the TALL stack (Tailwind, Laravel, Livewire, Alpine), FilamentPHP, and a bit of React.</p><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">I'm also the lead developer of Cosmolab (<a href="https://cosmolab.faselunare.com">https://cosmolab.faselunare.com</a>), where I primarily work in C++ developing embedded audio applications such as synthesizers, effects, MIDI tools, and Eurorack modules.</p><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">At the moment I'm using Cursor in Auto mode (€20/month) plus usage-based tokens, which usually costs me somewhere between €100 and €300 per month. It works extremely well, but I'd like to try Qwen or Kimi to see if I can achieve similar results while reducing costs.</p><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">I've also spent some time trying GitHub Copilot. I quickly burned through all of the free credits just trying to get it to understand one of my Laravel web projects, but I never managed to reach the same level of context awareness that Cursor provides. It simply couldn't build a solid understanding of the codebase.</p><p class="gmail-isSelectedEnd">For Cosmolab, everything is extensively documented for both humans and AI. I have around ten well-structured C++ example projects that cover virtually every feature of the board. When these examples and the documentation are included in the workspace, Cursor understands my prompts very well and is able to generate fully functional synthesizers, effects, MIDI applications, and other embedded audio projects with very little guidance.</p><p>I'm curious to know whether Qwen or Kimi can provide a similar level of understanding and code generation for this kind of workflow. Has anyone here successfully replaced Cursor with either of them for medium-to-large codebases?</p><br><br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 27 lug 2026 alle ore 01:27 Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1771738298893909694"><div lang="FR-CA" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_1771738298893909694WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In fact I’d ask the AI to do a ‘Wordpress’ web site structure of what I need..<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Easier to debug or add things afterward..<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Good idea ?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 at 14:56, Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><p class="MsoNormal">Best Web site AI code generation ?? <br><br>I heard about CODEX ?<br>Is-it ?<br><br><br>________________________________________________________<br>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<br>Submit email to: <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>View archive at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/" target="_blank">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</a><br>Check your settings at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank">https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br>Selling or trading? Use <a href="mailto:marketplace@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">marketplace@synth-diy.org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div>________________________________________________________<br>
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