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I was a little late to jump on the cursor bandwagon but finally downloaded it because i liked the LLM chat interface in the sidebar. By the time my free trial r
by AlwaysRock 1y ago
I was a little late to jump on the cursor bandwagon but finally downloaded it because i liked the LLM chat interface in the sidebar. By the time my free trial ran out, VSCode had added a LLM chat interface in the sidebar. Yes Cursor had a bit better auto complete and maybe a few other things but it wasnt good enough that it was worth paying for.
But I'm glad OpenAI is getting into the tooling space in this way. I cant wait to use all the cool features they build after VSCode rips them off.
- szundi 1y ago[dead]
- cheema33 1y ago> By the time my free trial ran out, VSCode had added a LLM chat interface in the sidebar. I am guessing you are talking about GitHub Copilot when you say VSCode. GitHub Copilot is far far inferior product when compared to Cursor, Windsurf or Augment Code. Most people who try almost any Copilot alternative for a reasonable amount of time end up canceling their Copilot subscription. I did, after two months of using both.
- RobinL 1y agoHow long ago was that? 6 months ago I switched from VS Code to Cursor, which at the time was FAR superior to Copilot. Around a month ago I switched back to VS Code, and found there's not much difference any more. Autocomplete in VS Code is still less good, but the agent mode in VS Code feels pretty similar to Cursor's (albeit a little slower, perhaps). To be honest I think both are quite limited by context length (in that they try to limit the context they send to the LLM and hence cost), and so I find myself using Gemini 2.5 in AI studio with the 1m context length, and asking it to generate instructions for Copilot (which seems to work pretty well)
- AlwaysRock 1y agoYup. I found cursor to be better but not good enough that it really made that much of a difference in my actual day to day.
- twobitshifter 1y agothere is now an integrated agent mode in vscode as of 3 weeks ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dutyOc_cAEU&pp=ygURYWdlbnQgbW9kZSB2c2NvZGXSBwkJhQkBhyohjO8%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dutyOc_cAEU&pp=ygURYWdlbnQgbW9...
- fooster 1y agoI’ve used both extensively. Copilot agent just is not as good as cursor with Gemini 2.5. It is much much slower among other things.
- twobitshifter 1y agoInteresting Gemini 2.5 on both?
- fooster 1y agoI don’t think there is an option for Gemini with copilot