Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

I really like Zed. Have not tried any of the mentioned by op. Zed I feel like is getting somewhere that can replace Sublime Text completely (but not there yet).

Zed is an editor firslty.. The Ops has mentioned options which are AI development "agents" basically.

AI aided development has first class support in Zed.

Ie. it's not a "plugin" but built-in ecosystem developed by core team.

Speed of iterations on new features is quite impressive.

Their latest agentic editing update basically brought claude code cli to the editor.

Most corporations don't have direct access to arbitrary LLMs but through Microsoft's Github's Copilot they do – and you can use models through copilot and other providers like Ollama – which is great for work.

With their expertise (team behind pioneering tech like electron, atom, teletype, tree sitter, building their own gpu based cross platform ui etc.) and velocity it seems that they're positioned to outpace competition.

Personally I'd say that their tech is maybe two orders of magnitude more valuable than windsurf?

I don't dispite Zed is great, I actually am using it myself, but it's an editor first and foremost. The OP, to me at least seems to be asking more-so about the AI agent comparisons.

Cursor and Windsurf are both forks of VS Code, an editor.

Yes very observant, modified forks with their agents built in. Zed does not have any built in, sublime does not have agents built in but if you like you can continue this disingenuous discussion.

Thank you for your kind offer, I shall take you up on it. Zed does have it built in. Now, please continue your disingenuous conversation by repeatedly claiming something that is demonstrably not true.

Hello? You're not going to continue?