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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 5 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.46s | source

Things are changing so fast with these vscode forks I m barely able to keep up. Which one are you guys using currently? How does the autocomplete etc, compare between the two?
1. eisfresser ◴[12 May 25 05:48 UTC] No.43959991[source]▶
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.
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2. Alifatisk ◴[12 May 25 06:09 UTC] No.43960103[source]▶
We are truly living in the future
3. ximeng ◴[12 May 25 06:23 UTC] No.43960167[source]▶
Cursor offers this too - open different tabs in chat and ask for different changes; they’ll run in parallel.
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4. mirekrusin ◴[12 May 25 06:45 UTC] No.43960258[source]▶
Zed has this background flow as well, you can see in the video [0] from their latest blog post.

[0] https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor

5. frainfreeze ◴[12 May 25 10:27 UTC] No.43961467[source]▶
Until you change model in one of the tabs and all other tabs (and editor instances!) get model changed, stop what they're doing, lose context etc. There is also a bug where if you have two editors working on two codebases they get lost and start working on same thing, I suppose there is some kind of a background workspace that gets mixed up.