Void. I'd rather run my own models locally https://voideditor.com/
Which model are you running locally?
Is it faster than waiting for Claudes generation?
What gear do you use?
Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
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Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#112VS Code with GitHub Copilot works great, though they are usually a little late to add features compared to Cursor or Windsurf. I use the 'Edit' feature the most.
Windsurf I think has more features, but I find it slower compared to others.
Cursor is pretty fast, and I like how it automatically suggests completion even when moving my cursor to a line of code. (Unlike others where you need to 'trigger' it by typing a text first)
Honorable mention: Supermaven. It was the first and fastest AI autocomplete I used. But it's no longer updated since they were acquired by Cursor.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#113Amp. Early access waitlist -> ampcode.com
This is a product by Sourcegraph https://sourcegraph.com who already have a solution in this space.
Is this something wildly different to Cody, your existing solution, or just a "subtle" attempt to gain more customers?
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#114Amazon Q. Claude Code is great (the best imho, what everything else measures against right now), and Amazon Q seems almost as good and for the first week I've been using it I'm still on the free tier. The flat pricing of Claude Code seems tempting, but it's probably still cheaper for me to go with usage pricing. I feel like loading my Anthropic account with the minimum of $5 each time would last me 2-3 days depending…
I remember asking Amazon Q something and it wouldn’t reply cuz of security policy or something. It was as far as I can remember a legit question around Iam policy which I was trying to configure. I figured it out back in Google search.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. You may like the arms-length stuff here: https://github.com/day50-dev/llmehelp . shell-hook.zsh and screen-query have been life-changing I always forget syntax for things like ssh port forwarding. Now just describe it at the shell: $ ssh (take my local port 80 and forward it to 8080 on the machine betsy) user@betsy or maybe: $ ffmpeg -ss 0:10:00 -i somevideo.mp4 -t 1:00 (speed it up 2x) out.webm I press ctrl+…
This never accesses any extradata and works only when explicitly asked? I find terminal as most important part from privacy perspective and I haven’t tried any LLM integration yet…
It is intentionally non-agentic and only runs when invoked.
For extradata it sends uname and the procname when it captures such as "nvim" or "ipython" and that's it.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI aided development has first class support in Zed. Ie. it's not a "plugin" but built-in ecosystem developed by core team. Speed of iterations on new features is quite impressive. Their latest agentic editing update basically brought claude code cli to the editor. Most corporations don't have direct access to arbitrary LLMs but through Microsoft's Github's Copilot they do – and you can use models through copilot and…
I don't dispite Zed is great, I actually am using it myself, but it's an editor first and foremost. The OP, to me at least seems to be asking more-so about the AI agent comparisons.
Cursor and Windsurf are both forks of VS Code, an editor.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#117Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
This is the way.
All this IDE churn makes me glad to have settled on Emacs a decade ago. I have adopted LLMs into my workflow via the excellent gptel, which stays out of my way but is there when I need it. I couldn't imagine switching to another editor because of some fancy LLM integration I have no control over. I have tried Cursor and VS Codium with extensions, and wasn't impressed. I'd rather use an "inferior" editor that's going to continue to work exactly how I want 50 years from now.
Emacs and Vim are editors for a lifetime. Very few software projects have that longevity and reliability. If a tool is instrumental to the work that you do, those features should be your highest priority. Not whether it works well with the latest tech trends.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#118Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
I shortcut the "cursor tab" and enable or disable it as needed. If only Ai was smart enough to learn when I do and don't want it (like clippy in the ms days) - when you are manually toggling it on/off clear patterns emerge (to me at least) as to when I do and don't want it.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#119Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
That is interesting. Which tech are you using?
Are you getting irrelevant suggestions as those autocompletes are meant to predict the things you are about to type.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#120Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
+100. I’ve found the “chat” interface most productive as I can scope a problem appropriately.
Cursor, Windsurf, etc tend to feel like code vomit that takes more time to sift through than working through code by myself.