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It seems these days every other post on HN is about Cursor. Is Cursor ultimately not using GPT-4, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet and so on? If some of the auto
by belter 2y ago
It seems these days every other post on HN is about Cursor.
Is Cursor ultimately not using GPT-4, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet and so on? If some of the auto completion and agent features might be nice, is this not too much push for what is essentially just another UI plugin?
- rafram 2y agoThey have their own next edit prediction model, and for me personally that’s the killer feature. I don’t like the VS Code platform very much, but it’s just magical to be able to press tab-tab-tab and watch Cursor jump between lines in the file and make the edits that I was clearly about to make.
- smokel 2y agoDon't underestimate how much effort it takes to apply a technique (LLMs) to a certain domain. Creating a good user interface, processing the code into appropriate embeddings for useful matching, and marketing are just three things that take a lot of effort to get right. The fragmented landscape of alternatives is not attractive at all. One thing I'm quite worried about, though, is that Cursor is a fork of VS Code. This will never be maintainable in the long run, in particular if Microsoft does not want them to continue.