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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 5 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.038s | 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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rco8786 ◴[12 May 25 10:21 UTC] No.43961436[source]▶
This is where I landed too. Used Cursor for a while before realizing that it was actually slowing me down because the PR cycle took so much longer, due to all the subtle bugs in generated code.

Went back to VSCode with a tuned down Copilot and use the chat or inline prompt for generating specific bits of code.

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1. davidmurdoch ◴[12 May 25 13:21 UTC] No.43962604[source]▶
What is a "PR cycle"?
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2. klinquist ◴[12 May 25 13:35 UTC] No.43962720[source]▶
open a pull request, reviewer finds a bug and asks for changes, you make changes and re-request a review...
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3. davidmurdoch ◴[12 May 25 13:39 UTC] No.43962760[source]▶
That's what I was afraid of, I'd never think anyone submitting AI-generated code wouldn't first read it themselves before asking others to review it!
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4. rco8786 ◴[12 May 25 14:09 UTC] No.43963105{3}[source]▶
I read it myself. But if one person could catch every bug in code then we wouldn't need PR reviews at all would we?
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5. davidmurdoch ◴[12 May 25 15:32 UTC] No.43964187{4}[source]▶
Well yes, but I personally would never submit a PRr I could use the excuse, "sorry, AI wrote those parts, that's why this PR has now bugs than usual".

All that to say that the base of your argument is still correct: AI really isn't saving all that much time since everyone has to proof-read it so much in order to not increase the number of PR bugs from using it in the first place.