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Have you tried Cursor? (https://cursor.sh https://cursor.sh) It's a fork of VS Code with some AI features sprinkled in. It writes around 80% of my code, these
by davidbarker 2y ago
Have you tried Cursor? (https://cursor.sh https://cursor.sh)
It's a fork of VS Code with some AI features sprinkled in. It writes around 80% of my code, these days.
It also has a few useful features:
- a chat interface where you can @-mention files, folders, and even documentation
- if you edit a line of code, it suggests edits around that line that are useful (e.g. you change a variable name and it will suggest updating the other uses, which you accept just by pressing Tab)
- as you're writing/editing code, it will suggest where your cursor might go next — press Tab and your cursor jumps there
- cedws 2y agoLooks interesting, but I don't really want my code to go via some unknown company. As far as I can tell in "Privacy Mode" code still goes via their servers, they just promise not to store anything (with the caveat that OpenAI retain stuff for 30d).
- davidbarker 2y agoThey give you the option to use your own OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure API keys, but in all honesty, I don't know if they still gather information about your code even using your own API keys. You could use something like Little Snitch (on Mac) to check if it makes any calls to their servers. They also allow you to override the URL for the OpenAI models, so although I haven't tried, perhaps you can use local models on your own machine.
- cedws 2y agoUnfortunately, it looks like code still goes via their servers: https://cursor.sh/privacy https://cursor.sh/privacy > Even if you use your API key, your requests will still go through our backend! > That's where we do our final prompt building.
- davidbarker 2y agoAh, that's unfortunate.