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Cursor: A code editor built for programming with AI

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So looking through the dependencies, it's CodeMirror with a VsCode theme on top of it, that includes Copilot. Why wouldn't I just use an existing editor with Copilot support?

it has free chatgpt4 and copilot is a joke at now.

just added some more documentation to the readme. ty for the feedback!

Im curious. How did the github repo get 1.9k stars after just 2 weeks of development. Was it shared heavily on chinese social media (I noticed lots of github issues were written in chinese) ? I couldn't find any traces of it on twitter/google .

AI is still in an info-phase Bitcoin was in before 2017. Tech news are 50% AI, but it’s not on TV or in general public chit-chat yet. Expected to see an avalanche of fake/fraud/phony products based on it as we’ve seen about blockchain. It’s surprising it took so long, actually.

Also expected to see some bs in a spirit of (but unlike) NFTs.

def a lot of fluff in the space!

fwiw, feel quite strongly that LLMs will result in big productivity increases for many developers in the near-term

started working on cursor bc I think a ton of speedups would require editor-level changes (e.g. more mundane ones liek auto-fixing errors from the terminal/LSP, much better code nav/understanding using auto-generated docs; wackier ones like letting you edit a pseudocode version of your codebase)

most of chinese are cut off from chatgpt.

I use cursor to generate code and then edit in vscode. it is free and generate good code.

i was also curious, very bizarre. also 120 forks.

https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor

here's what that looks like compared to hitting the HN front page for ~12hrs:

https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor&leeoniya/ufuzzy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035580

minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media

There's nothing on the official website or GitHub that indicates what this software is, other than a cropped screenshot that looks like vscode with a prompt pop up over it.

Edit: I still can't figure out if this is just some sarcastic joke software or something.

Didn't OpenAI invest in this company...?

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