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The IDE landscape has recently seen some heated opinions, especially surrounding Windsurf and Cursor IDE. A ...
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can't agree more.
Windsurf is the first AI-powered IDE I’ve used extensively, and it’s been awesome. I tried Cursor before, but given its steep pricing and my already growing list of expenses, made me decide against it.
When Windsurf launched, I noticed a lot of buzz around it.Since they offered a free trial of their Pro version, I decided to give it a shot. I’ve been using it for about a week now, and it’s been a game changer. It’s boosted my productivity so much. Sometimes, I barely need to write anything myself—I just review the code it generates. Considering its affordable price,I’m pretty sure I’ll subscribe once the trial ends.
This perfectly reflects my experience, down to the last word. Windsurf made me to start using and loving AI code editors (always hated them, not gonna lie). But now I hardly write much except I know the task can't be trusted to an AI.
Windsurf is the first AI IDE I genuinely feel like paying for. As I mentioned to someone in the comments, Windsurf isn’t dramatically better than Cursor, but considering the price, it kind of is.
Before discovering Windsurf, I didn’t see the value in paying for an AI code editor. I kept asking myself: Would I really want to pay for something like that? I had a bunch of extensions that handled almost everything Cursor offered, except for multi-file creation and editing. The rest was covered—and all those tools were free! (I even considered writing an article about it and still might.)
So, I thought: No way is multi-file editing worth $20. Plus, Cursor limits you to 500 fast premium requests per month for that price, which GPT-4, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet are counted as premium models. In contrast, Windsurf offers unlimited usage for just $10. That’s a game-changer.
FYI: Until they fix their autocomplete to be better, I still use Supermaven.
write this article about tools please :)
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t3.gg is biased because he is actually a Cursor investor. He openly admits it in one of his cursor videos.
True. He even says it in a number of videos.
Even as Windsurf is still in beta, it's performing remarkably well, being compared to the finished Cursor.
Yup... cursor is utterly useless, if you want to pretend to be an idiot with an ide, Id probably have shit on cursor right away. It served a purpose, but its been superseded until they at least offer similar features, the only feature im almost willing to hack it in myself, is the use of .cusorfiles to prompt the llm
I have to agree, I use both IDEs but especially when you start a new project, Windsurf is much better because you can just pray with a short prompt Cascade to start a new project.
And because of the 20€ a month, I'd rather spend it on my server and not on some IDE. (I currently pay €5 a month for 20 GB DDR5 RAM, 4 AMD EPYC VCore and 200 GB RAID 1 NVME).
Well written lad.
Pressing command + enter on cursor makes the entire repo the context.
And I don't believe Windsurf can look up help from the web, which cursor can do.
While you might be right (though I haven't heard anyone else say this), that's not my point when I say Windsurf is better. It's more like comparing apples to oranges, and here's why:
Free Plan Comparison:
Windsurf's free plan offers more features than Cursor's free version.
Product Maturity:
Windsurf is still in public beta, yet it's already competing closely with Cursor, which is a finished product.
Value for Money:
Windsurf's $10/month plan provides significantly more value than Cursor's $20/month plan. For an additional $10, Cursor currently offers:
Considering this, I don't see why anyone should pay an extra $10 for those minor advantages.
The Core Point:
AI can't write better code than a developer. If a developer chooses a tool mainly because they expect it to code better than them, they probably shouldn't be developers.
This article is for those who believe in spending less to get more value. I'm not denying that Cursor has some good AI capabilities, but it doesn't offer enough to justify the price difference compared to Windsurf.
I really want to switch to windsurf but no solid support for devcontainer is a huge let down.