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NoCursor, Copilot · 12 May 2025

Used Cursor for a while before realizing that it was actually slowing me down because the PR cycle took so much longer, due to all the subtle bugs in generated code

rco8786 on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using Copilot chat or inline prompts for specific bits of code.

Got in the way: Subtle bugs in generated code lengthened the PR cycle.

This is where I landed too. Used Cursor for a while before realizing that it was actually slowing me down because the PR cycle took so much longer, due to all the subtle bugs in generated code. Went back to VSCode with a tuned down Copilot and use the chat or inline prompt for generating specific bits of code.