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Cursor Has Raised $60M

61 points by ent101 2y ago

darkotic 2y ago
Been using aider with Code and it's so amazing. Also swapping between Zed because it's so fast.
- trees101 2y ago
  can you elaborate about how you use Zed with Aider?
tiffanyh 2y ago
Genuine question: how do the economics work to raise $60M, for a product that costs at most $40/month?
- flashgordon 2y ago
  My napkin math is your valuation is usually 5 x raise amount and 10x annual revenue. So valuation is 5*60m = 300m And expected annual revenue is 30m. At 40/month they are expecting roughly 1M monthly actives. So I am guessing their pitch is with the vc money they will get to this number and beyond before the next funding round. Reality is more like the founders got to cash "something" for their troubles and ability to sell the dream to others. Who knows may be they will hit it out of the park before the next round.
  - deisteve 2y ago
    interesting...and if you have this type of revenue who do you approach
    - chrisabrams 2y ago
      If you have this kind of revenue, you don't approach anyone, they approach you.
    - ericjmorey 2y ago
      The linked post said they got funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, Github, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI But there are many others like Accel and Caffeinated Capital
    - flashgordon 2y ago
      So the funding is usually for a "future" revenue. Ie to hit this goal. Imo if they had this revenue they'd be aiming for 10x that with a much higher valuation. VC funding is all about a growth story. If you can keep selling vision you never have to worry about revenues or hitting them. There's even a name for such schemes!
      - deisteve 2y ago
        what happens to the founders if they dont hit it
        flashgordon 2y ago
        They either run out funding (so be forced to do layoffs, liquidations etc) or they have to find someone who can bail them out at unfavorable terms (read dilutions) or be really really good at story telling.
- mascot6699 2y ago
  You show that you will get 21K users this year surely and who will each refer 3 more if product is built fast.
- jimsimmons 2y ago
  That's just 125K users
- ganduG 2y ago
  My guess is they'll want to become the AI-first developer tools company and branch out into all kinds of different dev products (CI/CD, testing, etc) ala GitHub. Obviously, enterprise is where the real money is.
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    GitHub Copilot uptake is already fairly robust, hard to complete against it baked into the product. https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/02/05/copilot-numbers.aspx https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/02/05/copilot... https://github.blog/news-insights/research/the-economic-impact-of-the-ai-powered-developer-lifecycle-and-lessons-from-github-copilot/ https://github.blog/news-insights/research/the-economic-impa...
- llamaimperative 2y ago
  23 million SWEs today, presumably they argue that number will climb both due to growth of software in general and their tool lowering the bar of writing code. 23 million * $40 * 12 => $11B per year in rev * ~10-12x revenue enterprise value => company could grow to be worth $100B+ So assuming you feel like you're getting a fair price for it today, then there's plenty of room for your money to grow.
  - hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
    These are fantasy numbers. > 23 million * $40 * 12 So you're assuming every single developer will pay $40 a month for Cursor??? And I say this as someone who does pay $20 a month for Cursor. I also think it's quite the stretch to say the number of SWEs will grow meaningfully due to AI, especially when it seems like half the time you hear a pitch about how it will make software developers obsolete. To be clear, I can easily understand how $60 million is a good investment, but I chuckle at the $100B+ valuation.
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    - llamaimperative 2y ago
      Yeah of course they’re fantasy numbers. It’s called a TAM and it’s how VCs get comfortable with putting $60 million into a company like Cursor. I made no claim as to what the company is actually worth. And right, some people claim AI will reduce number of SWEs. If you’re Cursor, you’re probably arguing the opposite.
  - all2 2y ago
    Let's say they capture 2 percent of the market. 23mil x 40 x 12 = 220.8 mil I don't know how many developers want to give up their bespoke IDEs. Moving away from JetBrains products (even given all there warts) would be a hard sell for me. I also don't know how many developers even pay for an IDE.
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- ahstilde 2y ago
  Assuming $60M for 20%, that's a $300M valuation ($60M/20%). Assuming a 10x multiple on revenue, that requires $30M in ARR ($300M/10). Cursor only needs 83k paying users to hit that ARR. Github has over 100M users. Copilot has 1M users. It's a new, growing market.
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  - tiffanyh 2y ago
    Those numbers are just to get to "breakeven" on their valuation, correct? Meaning, Cursor would need to go from 0 paid users to 83k paid user ... just to justify that raise (and the investors don't even make money then).
- fulafel 2y ago
  They'll get sold to big tech, the paying customers and monthly cost higher than Github Copilot are just evidence of value.
jen729w 2y ago
I’m sure this is great for some people. (Really, I’m sure it is.) But whenever I’ve tried Copilot I can’t stand it for more than a minute. Because sometimes it’s magical. And when it is, it is! But then way more often it’s like having someone looking over my shoulder, telling me what they think I want to do, disrupting my thoughts.
- dumbo-octopus 2y ago
  Moving from a push to a pull based approach is an absolute must. It’s the difference between having a novice dev constantly in your ear telling you what they think should go next, vs an assistant you trust to fill in scoped out well defined logic for you.
  - solidasparagus 2y ago
    But it is a junior dev and changing the UX won't fix that. That's why the proactive, non-blocking, easy-to-dismiss design is so effective. The cost of failure is extremely low. The moment you switch to a UX where you have to push a button and wait, the acceptable failure rate goes way down.
    - dumbo-octopus 2y ago
      I don’t want to need to read through a bunch of junior dev trash when I’m going about my day to day tasks. If there’s something I am working on that I can clearly define well enough for a novice to be able to implement it, great, if not, I’ll do it myself.
  - nyanpasu64 2y ago
    Back in the free Copilot beta, I disabled automatic completions because they were like intrusive thoughts. Even then, with on-demand completion I felt my code-writing skills withering away as I'd instead ask Copilot to generate blocks of code I didn't have to think through myself.
- WillPostForFood 2y ago
  Have you tried turning off auto-complete, and just using Copilot Chat?
deisteve 2y ago
I stopped using Cursor months ago and dont think I will be coming back. For one, the software drains my laptop battery, I like the ability to reference files @filename but claude.ai and aider has replaced the need for Cursor
- mkummer 2y ago
  Real big fan of Continue for VS Code with Claude; @ reference files or add snippets for specific context, and you can disable indexing + tab autocomplete to save on resources Congrats to the Cursor team, their offering just seemed too closed box for me. Continue was a nice breath of fresh air being OSS
tomschwiha 2y ago
I was about to try it, but it seems to try to not sell me just an extension vor my existing work environment but a full new code editor. I don't think it has all my needed features my current Intellij based editors (Android Studio, PHPStorm and PyCharm) have. I wonder how many people are willing to give up their current IDE just for their code AI suggestions.
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joshSzep 2y ago
excellent! I have been using Cursor for the last couple months after a year of using GitHub Co-Pilot. it's not even a fair comparison. Cursor is just so much better, especially comparing it's chat quality to GitHub Co-Pilot chat.
ji_zai 2y ago
Teams like Cursor remind me of the importance of excellent execution. To many, a product like this was almost obvious, esp after Github Copilot gave us a glimpse of what an AI powered coding experience could feel like. And there have been many attempts to do this right. But this team got the hundreds, if not thousands, of product / engineering micro decisions right, and seem to move quite fast. Well deserved. Congrats, and all the best!
lolpanda 2y ago
i think cursor is the only player that forked vscode. i've been using cursor for a week and i really like it. it's able to auto complete/correct code in multiple places at the same time. other copilot extensions in vscode were not able to do this. but i assume microsoft will quickly add this feature in vscode and others will catch up soon. i don't know if it's a true advantage to stay as a fork of vscode.
- langcss 2y ago
  The fork is what put me off so I use Codeium that seems to do an excellent job. It has saved me a lot of time especially in "convert from React to HTML" or "Use this field list to define a table" type tasks. The more autocompletey end of things rather than intelligent. The practical issue of a fork for me is .NET won't debug on a fork, but that is probably a niche issue overall. Edit: Codeium
  - sqs 2y ago
    Codium or Codeium? (Edit: Original post said Codium but it sounded like Codeium to me based on the description. :)
    - langcss 2y ago
      Codeium.
hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
Curious if anyone can comment on how Cursor compares to the current version of Github Copilot. I've been using Cursor for many months now. The biggest feature it had that I wanted when I first used it was searching your own repository. It indexes all of your code in a vector DB so that it can then use RAG to make suggestions against your own codebase. That was the "killer feature" for me - I don't get a ton of value from inline code completions, but I get LOTS of value if I can ask "Is there a utility function in this repo that does XYZ?" when working in a large codebase with lots of developers. Does anyone know if Copilot offers this know? I thought I had read a while ago that they added it, but a quick search just now brought up some relatively recent posts that said they still don't have it.
- sqs 2y ago
  Not that many people use Copilot Chat, anecdotally. We've focused on codebase chat when building Cody (https://cody.dev https://cody.dev), since we can use a lot of the code search stuff we've built before. It's hard to build, esp. cross-repo where you can't just rely on what's accessible to your editor. You can try it on the web if you sign up and then go to any repository's sidebar on https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search, or get it for VS Code/JetBrains/etc.
  - Scipio_Afri 2y ago
    Can I use local models with this?
    - sqs 2y ago
      Yes! Ollama models show up in the chat model dropdown in Cody, if Ollama is running on your machine.
      - internet101010 2y ago
        What about url-defined ollama? Personally, I run open-webui on an outward facing pi on its own vlan that connects to an internal machine running ollama. This is so that there is fallback to openai api if the machine is down.
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albert_e 2y ago
Does this really need to be a separate IDE (that too a fork of VS Code) than being just a VS Code extension? Getting a Rabbit R1 vibe
- beala 2y ago
  I was turned off by this too, but the fact that it's compatible with all VSCode extensions makes migrating a non-event. fwiw, here's their explanation [1]: > Why Not an Extension? > As a standalone application, Cursor has more control over the UI of the editor, enabling greater AI integration. Some of our features, like Cursor Tab and CMD-K, are not possible as plugins to existing coding environments. [1]: https://docs.cursor.com/get-started/migrate-from-vscode https://docs.cursor.com/get-started/migrate-from-vscode
  - langcss 2y ago
    It was an event for me as Microsoft decided to brick .NET debugging in forks.
    - ignoramous 2y ago
      Thankfully, it wasn't CrowdStrike bricking things this time around.
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elashri 2y ago
For reference, here is a list of the current main code assistants: GitHub Copilot Cursor.sh Cody Codeium Amazon Q (formerly CodeWhisperer) Pieces (This team is from Cincinnati, deserving a special mention from a fellow Cincinnatian) Tabnine Supermaven Zencoder (waitlist) Replit's Ghostwriter (not sure if it can be used outside of Replit) There are also tools that provide a UI for LLM models. While there are many, here are the main ones: Continue.dev Tabby Aider Double.bot Additionally, there is "Project IDX" from Google, though I am unsure how to classify it.
- paradite 2y ago
  For a different user experience from the tools in the list, I am building 16x Prompt which is a standalone desktop app aimed at streamlining semi-automated AI coding workflow. It is not as well known as the others, but I do have close to 2000 users. https://prompt.16x.engineer/ https://prompt.16x.engineer/
  - samstave 2y ago
    EDIT: ALSO - every one of these tools need to explicitly, in large letters state "This only works if you have a paid account on any AI you want to use" So the prompt wrapper is "free" - but you cant do much with free these days, and you cant seem to use these wrappers without a paid API token to an AI. --- Make it natively work with InstantDBs InstaML/InstaQL. Both ChatGPT and Claude struggle with the actual correct formatting of schemas for InstantDB - but if your thingy can wrangle them to be better... And throw this guyus idea of using Github Gists as a scratchpad for AI to lean on in your workflow outside of the utterly broken Projects/Folders on Chat and Claude. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359100 (Ill give yours a try, but Ive been heavily iterating with Claude on python, fastapi, instant, postgres, etc - and it runs out of context so damn fast (pro acccount, even) and the memory in project files, and artifacts is useless. So on your free account, 10 prompts a day is not enough... though Ill give it a real try before I judge :-)
jokethrowaway 2y ago
Considering Zed introduced AI and it's so much faster than Cursor or VSCode, I think the competition will be much harder than they sold to the investors. Cursor had the vector indexing going on but it doesn't work very well in my experience. Oftentimes it doesn't find stuff and I have to manually search anyway. Cursor is still pretty good as an editor, I've been using it for a while and even the free plan is pretty good value. LLMs are still pretty bad at coding (Claude, GPT, it doesn't matter) so even cursor-small is almost always enough for the kind of task you would offload to a LLM. Zed's approach of building the context manually with files and text and then asking for stuff is way more direct and less "magic". It works consistently.

61 points by ent101 2y ago

darkotic 2y ago

Been using aider with Code and it's so amazing. Also swapping between Zed because it's so fast.

trees101 2y ago
can you elaborate about how you use Zed with Aider?

tiffanyh 2y ago

Genuine question: how do the economics work to raise $60M, for a product that costs at most $40/month?

flashgordon 2y ago
My napkin math is your valuation is usually 5 x raise amount and 10x annual revenue. So valuation is 5*60m = 300m And expected annual revenue is 30m. At 40/month they are expecting roughly 1M monthly actives. So I am guessing their pitch is with the vc money they will get to this number and beyond before the next funding round. Reality is more like the founders got to cash "something" for their troubles and ability to sell the dream to others. Who knows may be they will hit it out of the park before the next round.
- deisteve 2y ago
  interesting...and if you have this type of revenue who do you approach
  - chrisabrams 2y ago
    If you have this kind of revenue, you don't approach anyone, they approach you.
  - ericjmorey 2y ago
    The linked post said they got funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe, Github, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI But there are many others like Accel and Caffeinated Capital
  - flashgordon 2y ago
    So the funding is usually for a "future" revenue. Ie to hit this goal. Imo if they had this revenue they'd be aiming for 10x that with a much higher valuation. VC funding is all about a growth story. If you can keep selling vision you never have to worry about revenues or hitting them. There's even a name for such schemes!
    - deisteve 2y ago
      what happens to the founders if they dont hit it
      - flashgordon 2y ago
        They either run out funding (so be forced to do layoffs, liquidations etc) or they have to find someone who can bail them out at unfavorable terms (read dilutions) or be really really good at story telling.
mascot6699 2y ago
You show that you will get 21K users this year surely and who will each refer 3 more if product is built fast.
jimsimmons 2y ago
That's just 125K users
ganduG 2y ago
My guess is they'll want to become the AI-first developer tools company and branch out into all kinds of different dev products (CI/CD, testing, etc) ala GitHub. Obviously, enterprise is where the real money is.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  GitHub Copilot uptake is already fairly robust, hard to complete against it baked into the product. https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/02/05/copilot-numbers.aspx https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/02/05/copilot... https://github.blog/news-insights/research/the-economic-impact-of-the-ai-powered-developer-lifecycle-and-lessons-from-github-copilot/ https://github.blog/news-insights/research/the-economic-impa...
llamaimperative 2y ago
23 million SWEs today, presumably they argue that number will climb both due to growth of software in general and their tool lowering the bar of writing code. 23 million * $40 * 12 => $11B per year in rev * ~10-12x revenue enterprise value => company could grow to be worth $100B+ So assuming you feel like you're getting a fair price for it today, then there's plenty of room for your money to grow.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  These are fantasy numbers. > 23 million * $40 * 12 So you're assuming every single developer will pay $40 a month for Cursor??? And I say this as someone who does pay $20 a month for Cursor. I also think it's quite the stretch to say the number of SWEs will grow meaningfully due to AI, especially when it seems like half the time you hear a pitch about how it will make software developers obsolete. To be clear, I can easily understand how $60 million is a good investment, but I chuckle at the $100B+ valuation.
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  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    Yeah of course they’re fantasy numbers. It’s called a TAM and it’s how VCs get comfortable with putting $60 million into a company like Cursor. I made no claim as to what the company is actually worth. And right, some people claim AI will reduce number of SWEs. If you’re Cursor, you’re probably arguing the opposite.
- all2 2y ago
  Let's say they capture 2 percent of the market. 23mil x 40 x 12 = 220.8 mil I don't know how many developers want to give up their bespoke IDEs. Moving away from JetBrains products (even given all there warts) would be a hard sell for me. I also don't know how many developers even pay for an IDE.
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ahstilde 2y ago
Assuming $60M for 20%, that's a $300M valuation ($60M/20%). Assuming a 10x multiple on revenue, that requires $30M in ARR ($300M/10). Cursor only needs 83k paying users to hit that ARR. Github has over 100M users. Copilot has 1M users. It's a new, growing market.
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- tiffanyh 2y ago
  Those numbers are just to get to "breakeven" on their valuation, correct? Meaning, Cursor would need to go from 0 paid users to 83k paid user ... just to justify that raise (and the investors don't even make money then).
fulafel 2y ago
They'll get sold to big tech, the paying customers and monthly cost higher than Github Copilot are just evidence of value.

jen729w 2y ago

I’m sure this is great for some people. (Really, I’m sure it is.) But whenever I’ve tried Copilot I can’t stand it for more than a minute. Because sometimes it’s magical. And when it is, it is! But then way more often it’s like having someone looking over my shoulder, telling me what they think I want to do, disrupting my thoughts.

dumbo-octopus 2y ago
Moving from a push to a pull based approach is an absolute must. It’s the difference between having a novice dev constantly in your ear telling you what they think should go next, vs an assistant you trust to fill in scoped out well defined logic for you.
- solidasparagus 2y ago
  But it is a junior dev and changing the UX won't fix that. That's why the proactive, non-blocking, easy-to-dismiss design is so effective. The cost of failure is extremely low. The moment you switch to a UX where you have to push a button and wait, the acceptable failure rate goes way down.
  - dumbo-octopus 2y ago
    I don’t want to need to read through a bunch of junior dev trash when I’m going about my day to day tasks. If there’s something I am working on that I can clearly define well enough for a novice to be able to implement it, great, if not, I’ll do it myself.
- nyanpasu64 2y ago
  Back in the free Copilot beta, I disabled automatic completions because they were like intrusive thoughts. Even then, with on-demand completion I felt my code-writing skills withering away as I'd instead ask Copilot to generate blocks of code I didn't have to think through myself.
WillPostForFood 2y ago
Have you tried turning off auto-complete, and just using Copilot Chat?

deisteve 2y ago

I stopped using Cursor months ago and dont think I will be coming back. For one, the software drains my laptop battery, I like the ability to reference files @filename but claude.ai and aider has replaced the need for Cursor

mkummer 2y ago
Real big fan of Continue for VS Code with Claude; @ reference files or add snippets for specific context, and you can disable indexing + tab autocomplete to save on resources Congrats to the Cursor team, their offering just seemed too closed box for me. Continue was a nice breath of fresh air being OSS

tomschwiha 2y ago

I was about to try it, but it seems to try to not sell me just an extension vor my existing work environment but a full new code editor. I don't think it has all my needed features my current Intellij based editors (Android Studio, PHPStorm and PyCharm) have. I wonder how many people are willing to give up their current IDE just for their code AI suggestions.

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joshSzep 2y ago

excellent! I have been using Cursor for the last couple months after a year of using GitHub Co-Pilot. it's not even a fair comparison. Cursor is just so much better, especially comparing it's chat quality to GitHub Co-Pilot chat.

ji_zai 2y ago

Teams like Cursor remind me of the importance of excellent execution. To many, a product like this was almost obvious, esp after Github Copilot gave us a glimpse of what an AI powered coding experience could feel like. And there have been many attempts to do this right. But this team got the hundreds, if not thousands, of product / engineering micro decisions right, and seem to move quite fast. Well deserved. Congrats, and all the best!

lolpanda 2y ago

i think cursor is the only player that forked vscode. i've been using cursor for a week and i really like it. it's able to auto complete/correct code in multiple places at the same time. other copilot extensions in vscode were not able to do this. but i assume microsoft will quickly add this feature in vscode and others will catch up soon. i don't know if it's a true advantage to stay as a fork of vscode.

langcss 2y ago
The fork is what put me off so I use Codeium that seems to do an excellent job. It has saved me a lot of time especially in "convert from React to HTML" or "Use this field list to define a table" type tasks. The more autocompletey end of things rather than intelligent. The practical issue of a fork for me is .NET won't debug on a fork, but that is probably a niche issue overall. Edit: Codeium
- sqs 2y ago
  Codium or Codeium? (Edit: Original post said Codium but it sounded like Codeium to me based on the description. :)
  - langcss 2y ago
    Codeium.

hn_throwaway_99 2y ago

Curious if anyone can comment on how Cursor compares to the current version of Github Copilot. I've been using Cursor for many months now. The biggest feature it had that I wanted when I first used it was searching your own repository. It indexes all of your code in a vector DB so that it can then use RAG to make suggestions against your own codebase. That was the "killer feature" for me - I don't get a ton of value from inline code completions, but I get LOTS of value if I can ask "Is there a utility function in this repo that does XYZ?" when working in a large codebase with lots of developers. Does anyone know if Copilot offers this know? I thought I had read a while ago that they added it, but a quick search just now brought up some relatively recent posts that said they still don't have it.

sqs 2y ago
Not that many people use Copilot Chat, anecdotally. We've focused on codebase chat when building Cody (https://cody.dev https://cody.dev), since we can use a lot of the code search stuff we've built before. It's hard to build, esp. cross-repo where you can't just rely on what's accessible to your editor. You can try it on the web if you sign up and then go to any repository's sidebar on https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search, or get it for VS Code/JetBrains/etc.
- Scipio_Afri 2y ago
  Can I use local models with this?
  - sqs 2y ago
    Yes! Ollama models show up in the chat model dropdown in Cody, if Ollama is running on your machine.
    - internet101010 2y ago
      What about url-defined ollama? Personally, I run open-webui on an outward facing pi on its own vlan that connects to an internal machine running ollama. This is so that there is fallback to openai api if the machine is down.

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albert_e 2y ago

Does this really need to be a separate IDE (that too a fork of VS Code) than being just a VS Code extension? Getting a Rabbit R1 vibe

beala 2y ago
I was turned off by this too, but the fact that it's compatible with all VSCode extensions makes migrating a non-event. fwiw, here's their explanation [1]: > Why Not an Extension? > As a standalone application, Cursor has more control over the UI of the editor, enabling greater AI integration. Some of our features, like Cursor Tab and CMD-K, are not possible as plugins to existing coding environments. [1]: https://docs.cursor.com/get-started/migrate-from-vscode https://docs.cursor.com/get-started/migrate-from-vscode
- langcss 2y ago
  It was an event for me as Microsoft decided to brick .NET debugging in forks.
  - ignoramous 2y ago
    Thankfully, it wasn't CrowdStrike bricking things this time around.

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elashri 2y ago

For reference, here is a list of the current main code assistants: GitHub Copilot Cursor.sh Cody Codeium Amazon Q (formerly CodeWhisperer) Pieces (This team is from Cincinnati, deserving a special mention from a fellow Cincinnatian) Tabnine Supermaven Zencoder (waitlist) Replit's Ghostwriter (not sure if it can be used outside of Replit) There are also tools that provide a UI for LLM models. While there are many, here are the main ones: Continue.dev Tabby Aider Double.bot Additionally, there is "Project IDX" from Google, though I am unsure how to classify it.

paradite 2y ago
For a different user experience from the tools in the list, I am building 16x Prompt which is a standalone desktop app aimed at streamlining semi-automated AI coding workflow. It is not as well known as the others, but I do have close to 2000 users. https://prompt.16x.engineer/ https://prompt.16x.engineer/
- samstave 2y ago
  EDIT: ALSO - every one of these tools need to explicitly, in large letters state "This only works if you have a paid account on any AI you want to use" So the prompt wrapper is "free" - but you cant do much with free these days, and you cant seem to use these wrappers without a paid API token to an AI. --- Make it natively work with InstantDBs InstaML/InstaQL. Both ChatGPT and Claude struggle with the actual correct formatting of schemas for InstantDB - but if your thingy can wrangle them to be better... And throw this guyus idea of using Github Gists as a scratchpad for AI to lean on in your workflow outside of the utterly broken Projects/Folders on Chat and Claude. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359100 (Ill give yours a try, but Ive been heavily iterating with Claude on python, fastapi, instant, postgres, etc - and it runs out of context so damn fast (pro acccount, even) and the memory in project files, and artifacts is useless. So on your free account, 10 prompts a day is not enough... though Ill give it a real try before I judge :-)

jokethrowaway 2y ago

Considering Zed introduced AI and it's so much faster than Cursor or VSCode, I think the competition will be much harder than they sold to the investors. Cursor had the vector indexing going on but it doesn't work very well in my experience. Oftentimes it doesn't find stuff and I have to manually search anyway. Cursor is still pretty good as an editor, I've been using it for a while and even the free plan is pretty good value. LLMs are still pretty bad at coding (Claude, GPT, it doesn't matter) so even cursor-small is almost always enough for the kind of task you would offload to a LLM. Zed's approach of building the context manually with files and text and then asking for stuff is way more direct and less "magic". It works consistently.