VS Code with Copilot.
This is the way.
Getting great results both in chat, edit and now agentic mode. Don’t have to worry about any blocked extensions in the cat and mouse game with MS.
Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
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Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#72Zed. 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.
Consumes lots of resources on an M4 Macbook. Would love to test it though. If it didn’t freeze my Macbook.
Edit:
With the latest update to 0.185.15 it works perfectly smooth. Excellent addition to my setup.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#73Claude code is the best so far, I am using the 200$ plan. in terms of feature matrix all tools are almost same with some hits and misses but speed is something which claude code wins.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#74Amp. Early access waitlist -> ampcode.com
I'd love to try it, could you please share an invite? My email is on my profile page.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#75Neither? 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.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#76Amp. Early access waitlist -> ampcode.com
Interesting! Do you have an invite to spare? My email is in my bio
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#77Windsurf, no autocomplete.
you should also ask if people acutally used both :)
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#78Zed. 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 gave Zed an in-depth trial this week and wrote about it here: https://x.com/vimota/status/1921270079054049476
Overall Zed is super nice and opposite of janky, but still found a few of defaults were off and Python support still was missing in a few key ways for my daily workflow.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#79Aider! 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.
Approximately how much does it cost in practice to use Aider? My understanding is that Aider itself is free, but you have to pay per token when using an API key for your LLM of choice. I can look up for myself the prices of the various LLMs, but it doesn't help much, since I have no intuition whatsoever about how many tokens I am likely to consume. The attraction of something like Zed or Cursor for me is that I just…
Depends entirely on the API.
With deepseek: ~nothing.
Re: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
#80Neither? 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.
Yeah
AI autocomplete is a feature, not a product (to paraphrase SJ)
I can understand Windsurf getting the valuation as they had their own Codeium model
$B for a VSCode fork? Lol