Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#11

Post by websap » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:30 AM UTC

Currently using cursor. I've found cursor even without the AI features to be a more responsive VS Code. I've found the AI features to be particularly useful when I contain the blast radius to a unit of work.

If I am continuously able to break down my work into smaller pieces and build a tight testing loop, it does help me be more productive.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#12

Post by triptych » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:35 AM UTC

snthpy wrote: post #6

Cline?

I love Cline and use it every day. It works the way I think and makes smart decisions about features.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by ebr4him » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:41 AM UTC

Both, most times one works better than the other.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#14

Post by rcarmo » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:42 AM UTC

Neither. VS Code or Zed.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#15

Post by joelthelion » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:46 AM UTC

Aider! Use the editor of your choice and leave your coding assistant separate. Plus, it's open source and will stay like this, so no risk to see it suddenly become expensive or dissappear.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#16

Post by anonymoushn » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:46 AM UTC

I evaluated Windsurf at a friend's recommendation around half a year ago and found that it could not produce any useful behaviors on files above a thousand lines or so. I understand this is mostly a property of the model, but certainly also a property of the approach used by the editor of just tossing the entire file in, yeah? I haven't tried any of these products since then, but it might be worth another shot because Gemini might be able to handle these files.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#17

Post by eisfresser » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:48 AM UTC

Windsurf at the moment. It now can run multiple "flows" in parallel, so I can set one cascade off to look into a bug somewhere while another cascade implements a feature elswhere in the code base. The LLMs spit out their tokens in the background, I drop in eventually to reveiew and accept or ask for further changes.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#18

Post by da_me » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:50 AM UTC

Cursor for personal projects and Just Pycharm for work projects.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#19

Post by geoffbp » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:50 AM UTC

Vs code with agent mode

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

#20

Post by vladstudio » Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:52 AM UTC

snthpy wrote: post #6

Cline?

Cline!