Cursor — The AI Code Editor
Day 262 / 366
One AI product that I use daily is Github Copilot. I did not get it on purpose. I was part of a dev team for a freelance project where they provided copilot subscriptions to everyone. The best thing is that I could use it on all of my projects.
Github Copilot is basically an AI-powered code complete feature. While it will not always be accurate, I find that 90% of the time it writes good enough code for me to use. And I have now gotten used to adding comments to prompt it in the way that I want. For sure it has increased my productivity a lot. I am not saying that this will replace developers, but it is definitely a worthy coding assistant if you are a senior dev.
I have been reading a lot about another such AI coding tool called Cursor. Unlike GitHub Copilot which is just an extension for VSCode, Cursor is a full-on IDE with AI built into it.
It’s a fork of VSCode, so it will be easy to use for most devs. It has additional features like chat or editing code using natural language prompts.
In the coming days, I will be giving Cursor a try, and see how better it is then Copilot.