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Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 1 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.273s | 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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artdigital ◴[12 May 25 12:12 UTC] No.43962096[source]▶
I find Windsurf almost unusable. It’s hard to explain but the same models in Zed, Windsurf, Copilot and Cursor produce drastically worse code in Windsurf for whatever reason. The agent also tends to do way more stupid things at random, like wanting to call MCP tools, creating new files, then suddenly forgetting how to use tools and apologizing a dozen times

I can’t really explain or prove it, but it was noticeable enough to me that I canceled my subscription and left Windsurf

Maybe a prompting or setting issue? Too high temperature?

Nowadays Copilot got good enough for me that it became my daily driver. I also like that I can use my Copilot subscription in different places like Zed, Aider, Xcode

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1. int_19h ◴[12 May 25 15:10 UTC] No.43963926[source]▶
I have also observed this with Gemini 2.5 in Cursor vs Windsurf.

Cline seems to be the best thing, I suspect because it doesn't do any dirty tricks with trimming down the context under the hood to keep the costs down. But for the same reason, it's not exactly fun to watch the token/$ counter ticking as it works.