I am confused that the author said he has privacy concerns about cursor, but the most satisfactory thing about cursor is that it asked me whether I want privacy mode at the beginning.

On the contrary, I am very skeptical about whether these websites with free quotas, not only claude, but also grok, chatgpt, etc., will use chat data for training.

If you are really worried about this, it is not impossible to deploy deepseek r1 locally now.

Anyway, I'm doing the same - one extra tip is to use the "project" feature of Claude Desktop to give your coding assistant some context - use it similar to .cursorrules.

The article mentions a python MCP library, there seems to be a pretty vibrant golang MCP server as well at https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go. No personal experience, but I'd usually rather a binary than a python environment install when I can get it.

The other thing the author mentions is that Claude can author MCP integrations and merge them into your server -- sounds good to me!