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Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by LandR »

elAhmo wrote: post #148
welder wrote: post #75

Neither? 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.

Cursor/Windsurf and similar IDEs and plugins are more than autocomplete on steroids. Sure, you might not like it and think you as a human should write all code, but frequent experience in the industry in the past months is that productivity in the teams using tools like this has greatly increased. It is not unreasonable to think that someone deciding not to use tools like this will not be competitive in the market in…

I use Rider with some built in AI auto-complete. I'd say its hit rate is pretty low!

Sometimes it auto-completes nonsense, but sometimes I think I'm about to tab on auto-completing a method like FooABC and it actually completes it to FoodACD, both return the same type but are completely wrong.

I have to really be paying attention to catch it selecting the wrong one. I really really hate this. When it works its great, but every day I'm closer to just turning it off out of frustration.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by owendarko »

welder wrote: post #75

Neither? 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.

You could also use these AI coding features on a plug-and-play basis with an IDE extension.

For example, VS Code has Cline & Kilo Code (disclaimer: I help maintain Kilo).

Jetbrains has Junie, Zencoder, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by pk97 »

the age of swearing allegiance to a particular IDE/AI tool is over. I keep switching between Cursor and GH Copilot and for the most part they are very similar offerings. Then there's v0, Claude (for its Artifacts feature) and Cline which I use quite regularly for different requirements.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by xmorse »

eadz wrote: post #53
dvtfl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep: https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction

It would be great if there was an easy way to run their open model ( https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta ) locally ( for latency reasons ). I don't think Zeta is quite up to windsurf's completion quality/speed. I get that this would go against their business model, but maybe people would pay for this - it could in theory be the fastest completion since it would run locally.

Running models locally is very expensive in terms of memory and scheduling requirements, maybe instead they should host their model on the Cloudflare AI network which is distributed all around the world and can have lower latency

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by xmorse »

danpalmer wrote: post #9

Zed. They've upped their game in the AI integration and so far it's the best one I've seen (external from work). Cursor and VSCode+Copilot always felt slow and janky, Zed is much less janky feels like pretty mature software, and I can just plug in my Gemini API key and use that for free/cheap instead of paying for the editor's own integration.

I am using Zed too, it still has some issues but it is comparable to Cursor. In my opinion they iterate even faster than the VSCode forks.

Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

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Post by can16358p »

While I haven't used Windsurf, I've been using Cursor and I LOVE it: especially the inline autocomplete is like reading my mind and making the work MUCH faster.

I can't say anything about Windsurf (as I haven't tried yet) but I can confidently say Cursor is great.

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