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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 1 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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?
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welder ◴[12 May 25 07:43 UTC] No.43960527[source]▶
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.
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nsteel ◴[12 May 25 09:19 UTC] No.43961090[source]▶
I can't even get simple code generation to work for VHDL. It just gives me garbage that does not compile. I have to assume this is not the case for the majority of people using more popular languages? Is this because the training data for VHDL is far more limited? Are these "AIs" not able to consume the VHDL language spec and give me actual legal syntax at least?! Or is this because I'm being cheap and lazy by only trying free chatGPT and I should be using something else?
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1. drob518 ◴[12 May 25 12:24 UTC] No.43962162[source]▶
The amount of training data available certainly is a big factor. If you’re programming in Python or JavaScript, I think the AIs do a lot better. I write in Clojure, so I have the same problem as you do. There is a lot less HDL code publicly available, so it doesn’t surprise me that it would struggle with VHDL. That said, from everything I’ve read, free ChatGPT doesn’t do as well on coding. OpenAI’s paid models are better. I’ve been using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7. It’s paid but it’s very cost effective. I’m also playing around with the Gemini Pro preview.