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I have not tried cursor using a combination of copilot and chatgpt o1. Is cursor considered a better solution? I find it takes the tedium out of work and allows

I have not tried cursor using a combination of copilot and chatgpt o1. Is cursor considered a better solution? I find it takes the tedium out of work and allows me to focus on the important bits. Right now working on a flutter app and it’s great to be able to quickly try out different ideas iterating quicker towards a final design than before LLMs.

NitpickLawyer 2y ago
> Is cursor considered a better solution? It's the best I've tried so far. I only tried copilot when it came out, so it might have improved a lot since then, perhaps someone using both now can chime in. There's two things I like about cursor - the overall multi-file edit -> I use this for scaffolding whatever I need, at a high level, and claude 3.5 seems a bit better than 4o for this. The tab thing really works, and it will surprise you. They don't do just autocomplete, they also do auto-action complete so after you edit something, your cursor (heh) goes to the next predicted place where you're likely to make an edit. And it works ootb most times, and a few times I've gone "huh, might have missed that, if it weren't for the cursor going there". So that's my current workflow. Zoomed out scaffolding and then going in and editing / changing whatever it is that I need, and cursor has two really strong features for both cases.
- zdragnar 2y ago
  Didn't sublime text have this with snippets? I vaguely recall setting some up with tab stops for the parts that need manual completion. Not AI, but it was nice to have back 10-ish or whatever years ago.
  - Maxion 2y ago
    No, that was a completely different thing.
  - NitpickLawyer 2y ago
    I've seen something like you mention in vscode for snippets - that is fixed pieces of code with some variables, and the IDE skips to them w/ tab, so that you can fill in the values. But that's only for already made snippets, afaik. The tab autocomplete in cursor is more of a "next action autocomplete", wherein the LLM (a 70b fine-tune from what the team said) will "autocomplete" the next action that makes sense in context. Imagine changing something in a fn definition, and then the cursor jumps to the line where you used that fn. I'm sure something like this example could be hardcoded in an IDE, but this works ootb in a general way.
viraptor 2y ago
It's a completely different class than copilot in my opinion. Or a higher generation. I find copilot occasionally useful, but very chaotic. Cursor on the other hand is consistently saving me lots of typing every day.
- christkv 2y ago
  My problem is that i need an inteliJ plugin. Somebody mentioned codebuddy as an alternative.

NitpickLawyer 2y ago

> Is cursor considered a better solution? It's the best I've tried so far. I only tried copilot when it came out, so it might have improved a lot since then, perhaps someone using both now can chime in. There's two things I like about cursor - the overall multi-file edit -> I use this for scaffolding whatever I need, at a high level, and claude 3.5 seems a bit better than 4o for this. The tab thing really works, and it will surprise you. They don't do just autocomplete, they also do auto-action complete so after you edit something, your cursor (heh) goes to the next predicted place where you're likely to make an edit. And it works ootb most times, and a few times I've gone "huh, might have missed that, if it weren't for the cursor going there". So that's my current workflow. Zoomed out scaffolding and then going in and editing / changing whatever it is that I need, and cursor has two really strong features for both cases.

zdragnar 2y ago
Didn't sublime text have this with snippets? I vaguely recall setting some up with tab stops for the parts that need manual completion. Not AI, but it was nice to have back 10-ish or whatever years ago.
- Maxion 2y ago
  No, that was a completely different thing.
- NitpickLawyer 2y ago
  I've seen something like you mention in vscode for snippets - that is fixed pieces of code with some variables, and the IDE skips to them w/ tab, so that you can fill in the values. But that's only for already made snippets, afaik. The tab autocomplete in cursor is more of a "next action autocomplete", wherein the LLM (a 70b fine-tune from what the team said) will "autocomplete" the next action that makes sense in context. Imagine changing something in a fn definition, and then the cursor jumps to the line where you used that fn. I'm sure something like this example could be hardcoded in an IDE, but this works ootb in a general way.

viraptor 2y ago

It's a completely different class than copilot in my opinion. Or a higher generation. I find copilot occasionally useful, but very chaotic. Cursor on the other hand is consistently saving me lots of typing every day.

christkv 2y ago
My problem is that i need an inteliJ plugin. Somebody mentioned codebuddy as an alternative.