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Can someone tell me if windsurf is better than cursor? ( pref someone who has used both for a few days? )

by ionwake 1y ago

kurtis_reed 1y ago
Relevance?
- ionwake 1y ago
  its what literally every hn coder is using to program with these models much as gemini.where u been brother
ramoz 1y ago
Claude Code and its not close. I feed my entire project to gemini for planning and figuring out complex solutions for claude code to execute on. I use Prompt Tower for building entire codebase prompts for gemini.
- ionwake 1y ago
  fantastic reply thanks, can I ask if you have tried cursor? I use to use claudecode but it was super expensive and got stuck in loops. ( I know it is cheaper now). Do you have any thoughts?
  - ramoz 1y ago
    I spend the money on Claude Code, and don't think twice. I've spent low 1,000s at this point but the return is justified. I use Cursor when I code myself. But I don't use it's chat or agent features. I had replaced VS Code with it but at this point I could go back to VS Code, but I'm lazy. Cursor agent/chat we're fine if you're bottlenecked by money. I have no idea why or how it uses things like the codebase embedding. An agent on top of a filesystem is a powerful thing. People also like Aider and RooCode for the CLI experience and I think they are affordable. To make the most use of these things, you need to guide them and provide them adequate context for every task. For Claude Code I have built a meta management framework that works really well. If I were forced to use cursor I would use the same approach.
chrisvalleybay 1y ago
Yes, I can. I am using Cursor extensively and have tried Visual Studio code with Roo, Cline, Copilot, Trae, Windsurf and Cursor. I believe Cursors UX to be vastly superior and I am getting the best results with Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro right now.
- ionwake 1y ago
  Thank you so much for your reply even tho i had a downvote for some unknown reason. All the best! I am now using cursor and gemini too.

Can someone tell me if windsurf is better than cursor? ( pref someone who has used both for a few days? )

kurtis_reed 1y ago

Relevance?

ionwake 1y ago
its what literally every hn coder is using to program with these models much as gemini.where u been brother

ramoz 1y ago

Claude Code and its not close. I feed my entire project to gemini for planning and figuring out complex solutions for claude code to execute on. I use Prompt Tower for building entire codebase prompts for gemini.

ionwake 1y ago
fantastic reply thanks, can I ask if you have tried cursor? I use to use claudecode but it was super expensive and got stuck in loops. ( I know it is cheaper now). Do you have any thoughts?
- ramoz 1y ago
  I spend the money on Claude Code, and don't think twice. I've spent low 1,000s at this point but the return is justified. I use Cursor when I code myself. But I don't use it's chat or agent features. I had replaced VS Code with it but at this point I could go back to VS Code, but I'm lazy. Cursor agent/chat we're fine if you're bottlenecked by money. I have no idea why or how it uses things like the codebase embedding. An agent on top of a filesystem is a powerful thing. People also like Aider and RooCode for the CLI experience and I think they are affordable. To make the most use of these things, you need to guide them and provide them adequate context for every task. For Claude Code I have built a meta management framework that works really well. If I were forced to use cursor I would use the same approach.

chrisvalleybay 1y ago

Yes, I can. I am using Cursor extensively and have tried Visual Studio code with Roo, Cline, Copilot, Trae, Windsurf and Cursor. I believe Cursors UX to be vastly superior and I am getting the best results with Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro right now.

ionwake 1y ago
Thank you so much for your reply even tho i had a downvote for some unknown reason. All the best! I am now using cursor and gemini too.