Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

310 points skarat | 1 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | 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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joelthelion ◴[12 May 25 05:46 UTC] No.43959984[source]▶

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Aider! Use the editor of your choice and leave your coding assistant separate. Plus, it's open source and will stay like this, so no risk to see it suddenly become expensive or dissappear.

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jbellis ◴[12 May 25 10:18 UTC] No.43961416[source]▶

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I love Aider, but I got frustrated with its limitations and ended up creating Brokk to solve them: https://brokk.ai/

Compared to Aider, Brokk

- Has a GUI (I know, tough sell for Aider users but it really does help when managing complex projects)

- Builds on a real static analysis engine so its equivalent to the repomap doesn't get hopelessly confused in large codebases

- Has extremely useful git integration (view git log, right click to capture context into the workspace)

- Is also OSS and supports BYOK

I'd love to hear what you think!

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evnix ◴[13 May 25 07:06 UTC] No.43970317[source]▶

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Apart from the GUI, What does it improve on when compared to aider.

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1. jbellis ◴[15 May 25 23:10 UTC] No.44000287[source]▶

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Short answer: static analysis

Long answer: https://brokk.ai/blog/lean-context-lightning-development

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