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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 1 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | 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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brokegrammer ◴[12 May 25 09:46 UTC] No.43961225[source]▶
Lately I switched to using a triple monitor setup and coding with both Cursor and Windsurf. Basically, the middle monitor has my web browser that shows the front-end I'm building. The left monitor has Cursor, and right one has Windsurf. I start coding with Cursor first because I'm more familiar with its interface, then I ask Windsurf to check if the code is good. If it is, then I commit. Once I'm done coding a feature, I'll also open VScode in the middle monitor, with Cline installed, and I will ask it to check the code again to make sure it's perfect.

I think people who ask the "either or" question are missing the point. We're supposed to use all the AI tools, not one or two of them.

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throwaway4aday ◴[12 May 25 09:53 UTC] No.43961267[source]▶
Why not just write a script that does this but with all of the model providers and requests multiple completions from each? Why have a whole ass editor open just for code review?
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1. ndyg ◴[12 May 25 12:39 UTC] No.43962272[source]▶
I'm finding I increasingly produce entire changesets without opening an editor: just `claude code`, or my own cobbled-together version of `claude code`, and `git diff` to preview what's happening. For me, the future of these tools isn't "inside" a text editor. If you want to poke around, my “cobbled‑together Claude Code” lives here: https://github.com/cablehead/gpt2099.nu