OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

Windsurf and Cursor are in the business of reselling ChatGPT and Claude at a loss, but the tech itself is not impressive at all

Those wrappers are gonna go away now that there's Claude Code and Googles CLI thing. They are that much better.

I agree. I use claude desktop with MCP and Gemini CLI exclusively. I have 20+ years of writing code, and this is awesome!

Are they?

Cursor's Accept / Reject feature for each change it makes in each file is nice whereas I have to use a diff tool to review the changes in Claude Code.

Also, if I go down a prompt alley that's a dead end, Cursor has the Restore Checkpoint feature to get back to the original prompt and try a different path. With Claude Code, you had better have committed the code to git, otherwise you end up with a mess you didn't want.

My company pays for both, but I mostly use Cursor unless I know I am doing a new project or some proof of concept, which Claude Code might have an edge on with a more mature TODO list feature.

I got burned too many times from that Restore Checkpoint thing not working right, maybe it's been fixed by now but seems silly to rely on something thats not a literal tool built for the job (version control), not a good shortcut.

It has worked perfectly for me every time, and it’s such a great feature.

Gemini CLI uses a shadow git repo and commits after every change, won't be long before Claude Code has that too.

None of these features are very deep though, there’s dozens of OSS clones for them already.

RooCode/Cline, etc

That’s a neat idea!