This is the first I've heard of Augment Code. What does it do? Why did you pick that tool, versus alternatives? How well did it work for you? Do you recommend it?
This is the first I've heard of Augment Code. What does it do? Why did you pick that tool, versus alternatives? How well did it work for you? Do you recommend it?
I'd also like to hear about this—did OP use Augment Code in Cursor? How does that work/what exactly does that get you? Do you pay for both?
I've heard about Augment Code on X and what piqued my interest was their "context engine" which is a fancy way of saying they have a way of navigating big codebases and providing enough context for their LLM to execute your query. It worked really well on a medium-sized codebase in my day job where other agents would fail.
It's a VS Code extension so I'm using it inside Cursor and depending on a task I would either use Cursor's Agent mode (for simpler, more constrained tasks) or Augment Code's (for tasks that span multiple files and are more vague and/or require more steps to finish).
There are downsides though - it's more expensive than Cursor ($50 vs $20 per month) and it can be unreliable - I'm frequently getting errors/timeouts that require hitting "Try again" manually, which is frustrating. I might switch to Claude Code after my plan runs out because I've heard many good things about it recently.