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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 4 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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dexterlagan ◴[12 May 25 12:43 UTC] No.43962306[source]▶
You need none of these fancy tools if you iterate over specs instead of iterating over code. I explain it all in here: https://www.cleverthinkingsoftware.com/spec-first-developmen...
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1. esafak ◴[12 May 25 13:12 UTC] No.43962530[source]▶
That is slow and expensive.
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2. dexterlagan ◴[12 May 25 16:23 UTC] No.43964762[source]▶
It sounds slow and expensive, but it ended up saving me a lot of tokens and time. Especially when you want to target multiple platforms at once. For me it was liberating, absolutely night and day.
3. dexterlagan ◴[12 May 25 16:26 UTC] No.43964791[source]▶
Also, keep in mind that you can continue iterating over code while you keep the specs up to date. You can then give the final specs to another LLM to resume work or produce another version for a different platform or using a different framework. I do need to update the article to clarify this.
4. datadrivenangel ◴[13 May 25 02:20 UTC] No.43969172[source]▶
cheaper than the alternatives