In contrast, cursor is eerily aware of its surroundings, being able to point out that your choice of naming conflicts with somewhere else
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Helped: Cursor's codebase context search and composer mode for surfacing entry points.
Got in the way: Copilot deviates from context beyond three lines, ignoring conventions and packages.
… My experience is that copilot is basically a better autocomplete, but anything beyond a three liner will deviate from current context making the answer useless - not following the codebase's convention, using packages that aren't present, not seeing the big picture, and so on. In contrast, cursor is eerily aware of its surroundings, being able to point out that your choice of naming conflicts with somewhere else, that your test is failing because of a weird config in a completely different place leaking to your suite, and so on. I use cursor without bringing my own keys, so it defaults to claude-3.5-sonnet. …