How is this different from cursor?
For one thing, it seems to be half the price.
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#22It's a cool idea but i really don't see how this is any diff from Cursor IDE. It might have features that are totally diff from Cursor but visually looking it just looks to me exactly like Cursor
Cursor doesn't edit files directly last time I checked.
It does edit files directly when using its' Composer feature (Ctrl/Cmd+I).
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#23I wanted to watch the video, but the keyboard typing being the loudest part of the video made it rather hard to listen.
I wonder if a tool exists to strip keyboard noise from YouTube videos?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Felt like I was watching Silicon Valley.
Did you notice Russ Hanneman? It's supposed to be a play on SV.
Fun fact: the Codeium office is actually the Pied Piper office from the show [1], so yeah, they like Silicon Valley.
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#25> an AI that can […] tackle complex tasks independently like an Agent. The AI is completely in sync with you, every step of the way.
How can it tackle complex tasks independently if it is completely in sync with the user every step of the way?
The marketing copy seems to promise contradictory properties.
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#26I’ve been using it the past few days. It’s both magical and terrible. They do their own terminal management so you’re fighting env issues that make no sense. It somehow spawns a terminal that can’t find my installed version of node, so then it asks me to brew install one, but will this now screw up my system or no? It’s an uncanny valley moment where it’s close, but also not really there. Hopefully the team can quick…
I just got done with my first session in Windsurf. It's mostly magical, but the terminal implementation leaves something to be desired. That doesn't seem like it would take much to fix though. Setting that aside, this thing is insane. I spun up a Django project/app and was able to accomplish in about 5 minutes what would normally take over an hour. The way it seamlessly edits multiple files in unison is unbelievably powerful. You can create a URL route, a view, a model and a template all in one swipe and it gets it right time after time. I'm impressed.
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#27I’ve been using it the past few days. It’s both magical and terrible. They do their own terminal management so you’re fighting env issues that make no sense. It somehow spawns a terminal that can’t find my installed version of node, so then it asks me to brew install one, but will this now screw up my system or no? It’s an uncanny valley moment where it’s close, but also not really there. Hopefully the team can quick…
> somehow spawns a terminal that can’t find my installed version of node
That's weird. It just runs my usual zsh profile files. Have you got some very customised shell init?
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#28I haven’t experienced any of the terminal issues people stress complaining about. Maybe they fixed it?
Today I had it build me an Angular component I could use to recognize and decode barcodes through the device camera. It did an excellent job and worked with just a little coaxing. I’m impressed.
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#29I always develop remotely from windows laptop to Linux servers using VSCode's remote ssh extension.
I don't know why you must fork the remote ssh extension, please keep these basic settings. Without supporting "remote.SSH.path", I can't connect to my server using putty. (Please refer to https://github.com/MarkusDeutschmann/ssh2plink)
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#30I always develop remotely from windows laptop to Linux servers using VSCode's remote ssh extension. I don't know why you must fork the remote ssh extension, please keep these basic settings. Without supporting "remote.SSH.path", I can't connect to my server using putty. (Please refer to https://github.com/MarkusDeutschmann/ssh2plink )
I patched ssh2plink and can connect to my server.
But, "Open Folder" button wants to open local folder.
It seems that the remote ssh connection is not supported yet...