I had never used Copilot before and didn’t know how good it was, but today I installed it and felt disappointed after months of using Cursor. It falls far short of Cursor. Perhaps the paid version is better, but for now, it’s not my choice. Cursor often struggles as well. For instance, it would be great if it could understand all libraries-then it would be much more useful but it's still better
{ "key": "cmd+k", "command": "-cursorai.action.generateInTerminal", "when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported" } Add this to your key bindings to get cmd+k back in your terminal. Then create a similar record (without the command negation) to bind something else to the terminal composer
i needed this comparison, i found cursor proactive in providing very relevant inline multiline suggestions, really help code fast. is very aware of all open tabs while doing so, makes it very useful, i think all these IDEs catchup each other for coming years
Glad it wasn’t just me who thought CoPilot was garbage. After trying to use it for five minutes, I went back to Cursor and Cline. Similar to You I tried some simple things and it just gets it wrong so much.
The same issues you're describing have happened to me. Cursor is far ahead of GitHub Copilot, which is ironic considering that Copilot is made by the company producing the IDE where everything runs and has a close partnership with OpenAI. I’ve also tried using Claude on Copilot, but the issues persist. On top of that, when I asked Copilot to describe a large codebase, Copilot hung forever, while Cursor gave me an instant response
for me the better autocomplete alone is a big enough factor to pay for cursor copilot works way slower, can't suggest mid-line, can't suggest multiline, can't tell me to jump into another part of the file to make some changes it feels like the previous generation tool, kinda like they didn't change a thing in the suggestions since the launch
I tried Composer couple of times and it could never deliver anything useful, it was faster to do everything manually. But the Cursor Tab and Chat are great.
I've told this for almost half a year now. Now everyone sees this by just following the rule of thumb : You get what you pay for 😂Thanks for showing this.
I'm currently a cursor user. Interesting comparison. I think this is just the first version of these new features on vsc, and they will get improved. I doubt cursor can compete with vs code in the long term. Cursor either gets acquired or will fail hard. I'm thinking this from day 1 when cursor was released: this editor is not going anywhere. There are players in the code editors market that have way more $$$$, users, fame, etc. What the creators of Cursor were thinking? Really they thought they could compete in that market and that others like vs code will not copy them almost overnight? Cursor had its 15 minutes of fame, I doubt in a couple of years we would use it at all And by the way there are also other free alternatives where you either user your own free model or pay as you go with your API keys. They're all emulating Cursor right now, or whoever came with this idea of composer first
In your second example, you were using 01-preview rather than claude-3.5-sonnet. Regardless, GH Copilot does look quite disappointing. I'm sure it used to be better than this. Let's see if they can catch up to Cursor with some future improvements.
I would hope that Cursor would be better considering it costs twice as much as Copilot's premium. Windsurf is now $15. So, this comparison to FREE is a bit unfair.
that's sad... cause cursor with latest sonnet model is freaking dumb. It ignores rules, documentation and common sense. Use outdated not working libraries (sometimes fake libraries). It rather use fantasy than real knowledge, so it ends of tons of errors and its absolutely useless for anything bigger than shitty snake game or useless landing page. No one test it in real work on youtube, and in real work it sucks. All that is no coding using experience, as assistant (when you do 80% of work) its okay...
I had never used Copilot before and didn’t know how good it was, but today I installed it and felt disappointed after months of using Cursor. It falls far short of Cursor. Perhaps the paid version is better, but for now, it’s not my choice. Cursor often struggles as well. For instance, it would be great if it could understand all libraries-then it would be much more useful but it's still better
Paid version is no different.
I bug fix with Cline
{
"key": "cmd+k",
"command": "-cursorai.action.generateInTerminal",
"when": "terminalFocus && terminalHasBeenCreated || terminalFocus && terminalProcessSupported"
}
Add this to your key bindings to get cmd+k back in your terminal. Then create a similar record (without the command negation) to bind something else to the terminal composer
Loving the AI tools series
i needed this comparison, i found cursor proactive in providing very relevant inline multiline suggestions, really help code fast. is very aware of all open tabs while doing so, makes it very useful, i think all these IDEs catchup each other for coming years
months not years)
Just fyi you can change the keybind for the generate command in cursor, it's "cursorai.action.generateInTerminal" (when "terminalFocus")
Glad it wasn’t just me who thought CoPilot was garbage. After trying to use it for five minutes, I went back to Cursor and Cline. Similar to You I tried some simple things and it just gets it wrong so much.
As of today, I use Copilot and work and Cursor for personal projects - Cursor wins
The same issues you're describing have happened to me. Cursor is far ahead of GitHub Copilot, which is ironic considering that Copilot is made by the company producing the IDE where everything runs and has a close partnership with OpenAI. I’ve also tried using Claude on Copilot, but the issues persist. On top of that, when I asked Copilot to describe a large codebase, Copilot hung forever, while Cursor gave me an instant response
I think you meant to say that copilot is far behind Cursor (was very confused when I read your comment)
@@orionmusicnetwork1677 yeah sorry, fixed
for me the better autocomplete alone is a big enough factor to pay for cursor
copilot works way slower, can't suggest mid-line, can't suggest multiline, can't tell me to jump into another part of the file to make some changes
it feels like the previous generation tool, kinda like they didn't change a thing in the suggestions since the launch
I tried Composer couple of times and it could never deliver anything useful, it was faster to do everything manually. But the Cursor Tab and Chat are great.
I've told this for almost half a year now. Now everyone sees this by just following the rule of thumb : You get what you pay for 😂Thanks for showing this.
I'm currently a cursor user. Interesting comparison. I think this is just the first version of these new features on vsc, and they will get improved. I doubt cursor can compete with vs code in the long term. Cursor either gets acquired or will fail hard. I'm thinking this from day 1 when cursor was released: this editor is not going anywhere. There are players in the code editors market that have way more $$$$, users, fame, etc. What the creators of Cursor were thinking? Really they thought they could compete in that market and that others like vs code will not copy them almost overnight? Cursor had its 15 minutes of fame, I doubt in a couple of years we would use it at all
And by the way there are also other free alternatives where you either user your own free model or pay as you go with your API keys. They're all emulating Cursor right now, or whoever came with this idea of composer first
In your second example, you were using 01-preview rather than claude-3.5-sonnet. Regardless, GH Copilot does look quite disappointing. I'm sure it used to be better than this. Let's see if they can catch up to Cursor with some future improvements.
In the last test you used o1 in VS code - you'd probably get better results with Claude but still seems like Cursor is just far away
Yeah, it's not quite what I was hoping for, but I bet they'll catch up, considering the resources they have.
I would hope that Cursor would be better considering it costs twice as much as Copilot's premium. Windsurf is now $15. So, this comparison to FREE is a bit unfair.
ok what about continue Dev with Vscode ?
Wait...what did you mean by your biased option?
what about aider?
And how about code privacy?
You think still about code privacy
@@ONESTTEFTEO We should all, specially who has intelectual property and other business things to take care of
@@dgitalnarrative Use local llms instead of claude, every llm is going to train on your data unless you self host
Why is Zed not good?
It has the best vim mode, but the AI features are WAY behind Cursor, Windsurf, etc
Steve is OG 👑
Microsoft are just trying to make offshore code even worse than it already is with a free version of Cursor.
Dont fall for the free tier folks. Cursor with 3.5 Sonnet (Opus soon) is the best you can get.
that's sad... cause cursor with latest sonnet model is freaking dumb. It ignores rules, documentation and common sense. Use outdated not working libraries (sometimes fake libraries). It rather use fantasy than real knowledge, so it ends of tons of errors and its absolutely useless for anything bigger than shitty snake game or useless landing page. No one test it in real work on youtube, and in real work it sucks. All that is no coding using experience, as assistant (when you do 80% of work) its okay...
Microsoft sucks as always
also make a video about pros and cons of cursor
This will be poors man AI.