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Cursor – The AI-First Code Editor

40 points by robenkleene 3y ago

chaosprint 3y ago
cursor sh or so?
storoj 3y ago
import foo from 'foo' > add comments // imports import foo from 'foo' oh thanks, now I know that these lines that start from "import" are actually imports
- julienlafond 3y ago
  I just tilted on the same thing. Worst comments ever!
- delusional 3y ago
  The other part of the same example isn't any better. "Collection name". The twitter embeds are wild too: "If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind." It's like crypto bros but for software development.
  - sanderjd 3y ago
    The current hype cycle indeed reminds me a lot of cryptocurrency. I think there is more substance to generative AI, but the dynamic of wading through all the hype trying to figure out what is and what isn't substantive is giving me deja vu.
    - Kiro 3y ago
      Fair but I don't think Cursor is one of those. I'm not using it myself but I've heard a lot of praise. What they're innovating on is the UX where the diff gets integrated into your code in real-time. It's like watching someone fix or change your code per your instructions, instead of using ChatGPT where you basically copypaste it after it's done.
      - madeofpalk 3y ago
        Isn't that what just the 'native' Copilot is?
        Kiro 3y ago
        I think what differentiates it is what they call "Command K": https://cursor.sh/features#cmd-k https://cursor.sh/features#cmd-k It basically gives you a Github style diff/PR right in the code, whereas Copilot just autocompletes.
  - wildrhythms 3y ago
    The NFT grifters have simply moved on to AI. I wonder what shiny object will infatuate them next?
    - delusional 3y ago
      I don't think that's entirely fair. There's a product here. I think they're over selling it quite a bit, but it's a real tangible product. This at least has the possibility to be useful.
- madeofpalk 3y ago
  The “add error handling” example is baffling. I’m not even sure if it’s valid JS to put an export statement in a try/catch block? Edit: No, it's not valid javascript https://i.imgur.com/9g28y3l.png https://i.imgur.com/9g28y3l.png
RadiozRadioz 3y ago
Not to play into the ever-present trope of HN users talking about the presentation of the website rather than the tool it's advertising, but this site is extremely unresponsive and janky to navigate. I hope that form-over-function experience isn't indicative of what I can expect from the Cursor editor.
- smcleod 3y ago
  Yeah it feels so js heavy, it’s horrible to use.
ShamelessC 3y ago
It’s a fork of VS Code? I guess it’s tougher to monetize an extension? edit: <ignoreme>Also why is it Mac only if VS Code supports all three OS?</ignoreme>
- mntruell 3y ago
  (One of the Cursor devs here) We forked VSCode because we wanted to change the UI in ways Microsoft wouldn't allow (e.g. our Cmd-K isn't possible as a VSC plugin; Microsoft is building their own version and isn't letting plugins use it)
- B0073D 3y ago
  It appears to have windows support also?
  - tgv 3y ago
    It does. It prompts me to download for Windows.
- cbenz 3y ago
  Indeed I can't see the point of shipping the "AI first" feature as a whole editor. It seems to me that it should be a feature of any editor, or else I'd like to be convinced by arguments less marketing oriented than those I see on the home page.
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    It's likely that they changed the UI in a way that stock VSCode does not allow. Extensions can't modify everything.
- julienlafond 3y ago
  On the website: "Cursor is a fork of VSCode"
  - ShamelessC 3y ago
clbrmbr 3y ago
Vi keybindings?
Alifatisk 3y ago
> Trusted by tens of thousands of engineers How do these large corporation find softwares like cursor.sh?
- lasvad 3y ago
  Also curious about this and questioning its validity…
- cotsog 3y ago
  It’s an easy trick: they just check the domains of the email addresses of people who created an account and display the logos of the high profile ones.
  - lucw 3y ago
    That's pretty fraudulent. Unless you signed a B2B contract, you can't claim thath.
    - teddyh 3y ago
      Well, they can; it’s just illegal.
      - outcoldman 3y ago
        Worst case they are going to get a legal email from those companies to remove the logos. When I worked at one of the large startup company, we all were submitting various websites to our legal department to remove our logo. I own B2B business, just never felt confident to ask other businesses if that is ok to show theirs logos, so don’t show any. Probably a miss of opportunity.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Ask a friend to use it once on a free trial. They work for Uber. Logo won. Rinse/repeat. I heard of cursor on the grapevine before it was posted here and I am not someone who stays on top of this stuff so they are doing a bit of marketing I reckon.
toddmorey 3y ago
I hate the pricing schemes emerging for these tools and I hope it gets fixed. “500 fast GPT-4 calls” & “Unlimited slow GPT-4 uses”. Wait. What is slow GPT4? Seems “your requests may be queued behind others”. Luckily, you can bring your own OpenAI key it seems but it’s a lot of granularity to ponder for a tool that’s supposed to make AI seamless.
- avindroth 3y ago
  1. I don’t think it’s too hard to understand BYOK or n number of tokens. I’ll have to talk to the market at large but personally, pretty clear. 2. Maybe you can suggest an alternative?
  - madeofpalk 3y ago
    The alternate is what the competition does: $10/month. No quotas. https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing What is a "GPT-4 call" anyway? What counts as a call in an AI-first editor? Every autocomplete suggestion eats away at my quota?
  - anonzzzies 3y ago
    Fixed price as copilot has? Who is going to pay token for coding? I have 100s of recommends in copilot per day. Has to be fixed.
michaelbuckbee 3y ago
Cursor's major innovation is in the UX of integrating AI-assisted tooling into your editor. - Inline chat about code blocks - Inline instructions on modifying/creating code - Import of documentation to the local project for better suggestions and referencing You highlight the code you're interested in and hit CMD+K to have it do modifications for you. This kills the copy + paste of code from your editor to ChatGPT and back, which beyond being a pain also loses all the context of where the code is in your project and is also a step ahead of Co-Pilot which is more just super intelligent code completion. In general, I've found a great deal of dev productivity improvements in using it as a coding assistant where I'm still orchestrating and guiding the work and using the AI assistance to very rapidly blow through boilerplate tasks, reformatting things, double checking if I'm doing something right, etc.
- llwj 3y ago
  Isn't the inline chat feature the same as Ctrl+I (https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_79/copilot-editor-chat.png https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_79/copilot-ed...) in GitHub Copilot? I find it really useful, although the main page of GitHub Copilot does not appear to mention this feature.
  - michaelbuckbee 3y ago
    I think that's "Copilot Chat" which I also used and at time (couple months ago) was only in beta and you needed Visual Studio Code Insiders release to use it.
hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Alternatively, if you just want to integrate Copilot into Neovim and get on with your day, I recently discovered that the latest LazyVim makes this option as an extra out of the box. I actually discovered this while working on Shell Bling Ubuntu, which is a couple of easy scripts to get you a bunch of modern command line tools nice and configured in one go, but you can just scroll down to "Add Copilot to Neovim" to see. It's refreshingly user friendly for NV configs. https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu
sam_goody 3y ago
1. How does CoPilot integration work together with ChatGPT in this editor - or is there no support for copilot? 2. Is there intent to support Code Llama? For that matter, what serious contenders to ChatGPT4 are there for code completion, which of these are self hosted, and are there any integrations to existing IDEs?
madeofpalk 3y ago
I was mildly interested in this, until i saw the "testimonials" > If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. Click through to their twitter bio > CEO @HyperWriteAI, @OthersideAI - I make AIs do the impossible. Okay, right. Sure. There's potential for interesting products in this space, but seeing all these blue check AI hype men do their 'thoughtleading' is an instant red flag for me. It's the exact same crypto bro bullshit all over again.
- mntruell 3y ago
  (One of the Cursor devs here) Appreciate the feedback! Can see how this can come across as hype-y. We're a small team of all software engineers and I think we have a thing or two to learn about branding -- kinda just picked out some of our favorite tweets
- re-thc 3y ago
  > If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. Except this is still VS Code based...........................................
- danwee 3y ago
  > If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. For a moment I thought that what would come after that sentence would be "... Use Jetbrains IDEs instead"
  - madeofpalk 3y ago
    That's what I was thinking. Jetbrain's autocompleting widgets.foreach to for (const widget of widgets) { } Still remains a next level feature for me. No AI suggestions have been able to top that.
tudorw 3y ago
Really pleasant experience learning a bit more python and implementing some small projects with the help of cursor.sh. I love the way it will just type out things, you can ask it to do thing you obviously know how to do, and it will spit out readable usable code without the typing. Remove all comments, work on code, ask it to put back comments, just silly time saving things but it all adds up, you can feed it fresh docs straight out of github and it does a fair job of interpreting them, there are a lot of things it can do, seems short-sighted perhaps to focus on what it cannot. Pleased to see the recent '$8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund', I'm not experienced enough with any IDE to judge their integrations, however, a lot of the criticism here seems to be a side track and not actually user experiences, their UX is under-development, to me, it looks cleanly implemented and well thought out for a 'young' product.
danwee 3y ago
> Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI Isn't it known that what takes the most time (in software engineering) is to understand a given business problem, decompose it in manageable chunks that can be worked in parallel, then provide a solution for each chunk, and then maintain such a solution? Using the IDE to write the actual code, sure, it needs to be done, but it's rather the part that takes the least amount of time. So, if any their slogan "Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI" is rather misleading. I actually spend more time reading code with my IDE than writing code.
Yanael 3y ago
The UX of Cursor is the best I’ve experienced so far. GitHub Copilot Chat has been released in beta, but the experience isn’t as good. The context and the real-time code diff make a huge difference.
fotcorn 3y ago
I've been using Cursor quite a bit on my two current personal projects in Python and C++ respectively, and I think it's quite useful: I haven't written a unit test by hand since I started using Cursor. Because it has the full codebase as context, it can easily generate unit tests. I would say the code is correct around 50% of the time on the first try? Otherwise, you can quickly submit a follow-up prompt to fix stuff. Obviously, it's still GPT-4 in the background, so hallucinations still happen. I tried adding a simple feature to my interpreted custom programming language using the chat feature, giving the full codebase as context: The programming language already supported indexing into arrays, but not strings. I asked in chat what I need to change to make this feature work. It generated code and showed me in which files I have to add or modify existing code. Very impressive. Again, the code wasn't perfect, I had to do some minor adjustments like method names, but it understood my code, gave the right files to modify, and also proposed code that was almost correct. There is a beta feature that applies the proposed code changes to the codebase, but that did not work yet when I tried it (I am using an OpenAI API key, maybe it's related to that). Overall, I think it is very helpful, especially when I am tired from $dayjob, but still want to do some coding in the evening. For me, it's much easier to formulate what I want to code in human language, instead of writing the code "by hand". Caveat: Even if you use the OpenAI API key, ALL your code is sent to the cursor.so servers for prompt generation, indexing etc., even with "local mode" on. "Local mode" just changes a flag that cursor won't save code on their servers, but it's still sent there for processing. I assume this is a deal-breaker for most companies for now.
luke-stanley 3y ago
"Keep your code private With privacy mode, we store none of your code in our servers or logs." But they then say they still use other peoples servers though. This copy text needs sorting out!
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 3y ago
Once again, an AI generator fails majestically when you ask a simple question. Don't these companies actually test their own products, or do they rely on the unit-tests generated by this product?
catlover76 3y ago
Cursor would be more promising if it wasn't just a VS Code fork that lags behind upstream VSCode and has broken extensions as a result. It has other minor bugs and glitchiness as well, and its main selling point atm, that the LLM gets your entire codebase as context, also isn't reliable with an even moderately-sized codebase.
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flanbiscuit 3y ago
I'm curious how this compares pricing-wise to Github Co-pilot for personal use: Co-Pilot: $10/month or $100/year (save $20 if you buy the yearly). Unlimited requests, no throttling It uses OpenAI’s Codex model, a descendant of GPT-3[1]. They do seem to be working on the next iteration of co-pilot which will be GPT-4 powered, code named "Co-Pilot X"[1,2] Cursor: - Basic plan: FREE, but with 50 GPT-4 uses (I assume total because it doesn't specify per month), and 200 GPT-3.5 uses per month - Pro plan: $20/month 500 "fast" GPT-4 uses per month, unlimited "slow" GPT-4 and unlimited everything else. If GPT-4 proves to much better than Co-Pilot's version of GPT-3 then maybe Cursor might be worth it. Wonder how long that 500 would last for a typical dev. sources: 1: https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/ https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-power... 2: https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://cursor.sh/pricing https://cursor.sh/pricing

40 points by robenkleene 3y ago

cursor sh or so?

import foo from 'foo' > add comments // imports import foo from 'foo' oh thanks, now I know that these lines that start from "import" are actually imports

julienlafond 3y ago
I just tilted on the same thing. Worst comments ever!
delusional 3y ago
The other part of the same example isn't any better. "Collection name". The twitter embeds are wild too: "If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind." It's like crypto bros but for software development.
- sanderjd 3y ago
  The current hype cycle indeed reminds me a lot of cryptocurrency. I think there is more substance to generative AI, but the dynamic of wading through all the hype trying to figure out what is and what isn't substantive is giving me deja vu.
  - Kiro 3y ago
    Fair but I don't think Cursor is one of those. I'm not using it myself but I've heard a lot of praise. What they're innovating on is the UX where the diff gets integrated into your code in real-time. It's like watching someone fix or change your code per your instructions, instead of using ChatGPT where you basically copypaste it after it's done.
    - madeofpalk 3y ago
      Isn't that what just the 'native' Copilot is?
      - Kiro 3y ago
        I think what differentiates it is what they call "Command K": https://cursor.sh/features#cmd-k https://cursor.sh/features#cmd-k It basically gives you a Github style diff/PR right in the code, whereas Copilot just autocompletes.
- wildrhythms 3y ago
  The NFT grifters have simply moved on to AI. I wonder what shiny object will infatuate them next?
  - delusional 3y ago
    I don't think that's entirely fair. There's a product here. I think they're over selling it quite a bit, but it's a real tangible product. This at least has the possibility to be useful.
madeofpalk 3y ago
The “add error handling” example is baffling. I’m not even sure if it’s valid JS to put an export statement in a try/catch block? Edit: No, it's not valid javascript https://i.imgur.com/9g28y3l.png https://i.imgur.com/9g28y3l.png

RadiozRadioz 3y ago

Not to play into the ever-present trope of HN users talking about the presentation of the website rather than the tool it's advertising, but this site is extremely unresponsive and janky to navigate. I hope that form-over-function experience isn't indicative of what I can expect from the Cursor editor.

smcleod 3y ago
Yeah it feels so js heavy, it’s horrible to use.

ShamelessC 3y ago

It’s a fork of VS Code? I guess it’s tougher to monetize an extension? edit: <ignoreme>Also why is it Mac only if VS Code supports all three OS?</ignoreme>

mntruell 3y ago
(One of the Cursor devs here) We forked VSCode because we wanted to change the UI in ways Microsoft wouldn't allow (e.g. our Cmd-K isn't possible as a VSC plugin; Microsoft is building their own version and isn't letting plugins use it)
B0073D 3y ago
It appears to have windows support also?
- tgv 3y ago
  It does. It prompts me to download for Windows.
cbenz 3y ago
Indeed I can't see the point of shipping the "AI first" feature as a whole editor. It seems to me that it should be a feature of any editor, or else I'd like to be convinced by arguments less marketing oriented than those I see on the home page.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  It's likely that they changed the UI in a way that stock VSCode does not allow. Extensions can't modify everything.
julienlafond 3y ago
On the website: "Cursor is a fork of VSCode"
- ShamelessC 3y ago

clbrmbr 3y ago

Vi keybindings?

Alifatisk 3y ago

> Trusted by tens of thousands of engineers How do these large corporation find softwares like cursor.sh?

lasvad 3y ago
Also curious about this and questioning its validity…
cotsog 3y ago
It’s an easy trick: they just check the domains of the email addresses of people who created an account and display the logos of the high profile ones.
- lucw 3y ago
  That's pretty fraudulent. Unless you signed a B2B contract, you can't claim thath.
  - teddyh 3y ago
    Well, they can; it’s just illegal.
    - outcoldman 3y ago
      Worst case they are going to get a legal email from those companies to remove the logos. When I worked at one of the large startup company, we all were submitting various websites to our legal department to remove our logo. I own B2B business, just never felt confident to ask other businesses if that is ok to show theirs logos, so don’t show any. Probably a miss of opportunity.
quickthrower2 3y ago
Ask a friend to use it once on a free trial. They work for Uber. Logo won. Rinse/repeat. I heard of cursor on the grapevine before it was posted here and I am not someone who stays on top of this stuff so they are doing a bit of marketing I reckon.

toddmorey 3y ago

I hate the pricing schemes emerging for these tools and I hope it gets fixed. “500 fast GPT-4 calls” & “Unlimited slow GPT-4 uses”. Wait. What is slow GPT4? Seems “your requests may be queued behind others”. Luckily, you can bring your own OpenAI key it seems but it’s a lot of granularity to ponder for a tool that’s supposed to make AI seamless.

avindroth 3y ago
1. I don’t think it’s too hard to understand BYOK or n number of tokens. I’ll have to talk to the market at large but personally, pretty clear. 2. Maybe you can suggest an alternative?
- madeofpalk 3y ago
  The alternate is what the competition does: $10/month. No quotas. https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing What is a "GPT-4 call" anyway? What counts as a call in an AI-first editor? Every autocomplete suggestion eats away at my quota?
- anonzzzies 3y ago
  Fixed price as copilot has? Who is going to pay token for coding? I have 100s of recommends in copilot per day. Has to be fixed.

michaelbuckbee 3y ago

Cursor's major innovation is in the UX of integrating AI-assisted tooling into your editor. - Inline chat about code blocks - Inline instructions on modifying/creating code - Import of documentation to the local project for better suggestions and referencing You highlight the code you're interested in and hit CMD+K to have it do modifications for you. This kills the copy + paste of code from your editor to ChatGPT and back, which beyond being a pain also loses all the context of where the code is in your project and is also a step ahead of Co-Pilot which is more just super intelligent code completion. In general, I've found a great deal of dev productivity improvements in using it as a coding assistant where I'm still orchestrating and guiding the work and using the AI assistance to very rapidly blow through boilerplate tasks, reformatting things, double checking if I'm doing something right, etc.

llwj 3y ago
Isn't the inline chat feature the same as Ctrl+I (https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_79/copilot-editor-chat.png https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/updates/1_79/copilot-ed...) in GitHub Copilot? I find it really useful, although the main page of GitHub Copilot does not appear to mention this feature.
- michaelbuckbee 3y ago
  I think that's "Copilot Chat" which I also used and at time (couple months ago) was only in beta and you needed Visual Studio Code Insiders release to use it.

hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

Alternatively, if you just want to integrate Copilot into Neovim and get on with your day, I recently discovered that the latest LazyVim makes this option as an extra out of the box. I actually discovered this while working on Shell Bling Ubuntu, which is a couple of easy scripts to get you a bunch of modern command line tools nice and configured in one go, but you can just scroll down to "Add Copilot to Neovim" to see. It's refreshingly user friendly for NV configs. https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

sam_goody 3y ago

1. How does CoPilot integration work together with ChatGPT in this editor - or is there no support for copilot? 2. Is there intent to support Code Llama? For that matter, what serious contenders to ChatGPT4 are there for code completion, which of these are self hosted, and are there any integrations to existing IDEs?

madeofpalk 3y ago

I was mildly interested in this, until i saw the "testimonials" > If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. Click through to their twitter bio > CEO @HyperWriteAI, @OthersideAI - I make AIs do the impossible. Okay, right. Sure. There's potential for interesting products in this space, but seeing all these blue check AI hype men do their 'thoughtleading' is an instant red flag for me. It's the exact same crypto bro bullshit all over again.

mntruell 3y ago
(One of the Cursor devs here) Appreciate the feedback! Can see how this can come across as hype-y. We're a small team of all software engineers and I think we have a thing or two to learn about branding -- kinda just picked out some of our favorite tweets
re-thc 3y ago
> If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. Except this is still VS Code based...........................................
danwee 3y ago
> If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. For a moment I thought that what would come after that sentence would be "... Use Jetbrains IDEs instead"
- madeofpalk 3y ago
  That's what I was thinking. Jetbrain's autocompleting widgets.foreach to for (const widget of widgets) { } Still remains a next level feature for me. No AI suggestions have been able to top that.

tudorw 3y ago

Really pleasant experience learning a bit more python and implementing some small projects with the help of cursor.sh. I love the way it will just type out things, you can ask it to do thing you obviously know how to do, and it will spit out readable usable code without the typing. Remove all comments, work on code, ask it to put back comments, just silly time saving things but it all adds up, you can feed it fresh docs straight out of github and it does a fair job of interpreting them, there are a lot of things it can do, seems short-sighted perhaps to focus on what it cannot. Pleased to see the recent '$8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund', I'm not experienced enough with any IDE to judge their integrations, however, a lot of the criticism here seems to be a side track and not actually user experiences, their UX is under-development, to me, it looks cleanly implemented and well thought out for a 'young' product.

danwee 3y ago

> Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI Isn't it known that what takes the most time (in software engineering) is to understand a given business problem, decompose it in manageable chunks that can be worked in parallel, then provide a solution for each chunk, and then maintain such a solution? Using the IDE to write the actual code, sure, it needs to be done, but it's rather the part that takes the least amount of time. So, if any their slogan "Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI" is rather misleading. I actually spend more time reading code with my IDE than writing code.

Yanael 3y ago

The UX of Cursor is the best I’ve experienced so far. GitHub Copilot Chat has been released in beta, but the experience isn’t as good. The context and the real-time code diff make a huge difference.

fotcorn 3y ago

I've been using Cursor quite a bit on my two current personal projects in Python and C++ respectively, and I think it's quite useful: I haven't written a unit test by hand since I started using Cursor. Because it has the full codebase as context, it can easily generate unit tests. I would say the code is correct around 50% of the time on the first try? Otherwise, you can quickly submit a follow-up prompt to fix stuff. Obviously, it's still GPT-4 in the background, so hallucinations still happen. I tried adding a simple feature to my interpreted custom programming language using the chat feature, giving the full codebase as context: The programming language already supported indexing into arrays, but not strings. I asked in chat what I need to change to make this feature work. It generated code and showed me in which files I have to add or modify existing code. Very impressive. Again, the code wasn't perfect, I had to do some minor adjustments like method names, but it understood my code, gave the right files to modify, and also proposed code that was almost correct. There is a beta feature that applies the proposed code changes to the codebase, but that did not work yet when I tried it (I am using an OpenAI API key, maybe it's related to that). Overall, I think it is very helpful, especially when I am tired from $dayjob, but still want to do some coding in the evening. For me, it's much easier to formulate what I want to code in human language, instead of writing the code "by hand". Caveat: Even if you use the OpenAI API key, ALL your code is sent to the cursor.so servers for prompt generation, indexing etc., even with "local mode" on. "Local mode" just changes a flag that cursor won't save code on their servers, but it's still sent there for processing. I assume this is a deal-breaker for most companies for now.

luke-stanley 3y ago

"Keep your code private With privacy mode, we store none of your code in our servers or logs." But they then say they still use other peoples servers though. This copy text needs sorting out!

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 3y ago

Once again, an AI generator fails majestically when you ask a simple question. Don't these companies actually test their own products, or do they rely on the unit-tests generated by this product?

catlover76 3y ago

Cursor would be more promising if it wasn't just a VS Code fork that lags behind upstream VSCode and has broken extensions as a result. It has other minor bugs and glitchiness as well, and its main selling point atm, that the LLM gets your entire codebase as context, also isn't reliable with an even moderately-sized codebase.

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flanbiscuit 3y ago

I'm curious how this compares pricing-wise to Github Co-pilot for personal use: Co-Pilot: $10/month or $100/year (save $20 if you buy the yearly). Unlimited requests, no throttling It uses OpenAI’s Codex model, a descendant of GPT-3[1]. They do seem to be working on the next iteration of co-pilot which will be GPT-4 powered, code named "Co-Pilot X"[1,2] Cursor: - Basic plan: FREE, but with 50 GPT-4 uses (I assume total because it doesn't specify per month), and 200 GPT-3.5 uses per month - Pro plan: $20/month 500 "fast" GPT-4 uses per month, unlimited "slow" GPT-4 and unlimited everything else. If GPT-4 proves to much better than Co-Pilot's version of GPT-3 then maybe Cursor might be worth it. Wonder how long that 500 would last for a typical dev. sources: 1: https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/ https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-power... 2: https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing https://cursor.sh/pricing https://cursor.sh/pricing