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Comment by nreece | Hacker News Reader

Been hearing great things about Cursor, and its been impressive in my few days of use.

https://www.cursor.com

Cursor has 1,883 ms latency while generating hints, while GitHub Copilot has 783 ms, and the fastest one, Supermaven, has 250 ms. Cursor is nice, but it's really slow compared to its competitors.

That's like saying an airplane has lower acceleration lol. It saves hours in copy-paste, and even if we're just talking boilerplate, it writes code throughout the screen, instead of just at the cursor (ironically).

It takes more than 2 seconds to figure out where to paste code and often longer to debug it if you try to do it below 2 seconds. Cursor just does this on a CMD+Enter.

It also runs GPT-4o and Claude, so the suggestions are much higher quality than Copilot.

I'm a fan of Supermaven, and speed does make a difference. In our team, most of the devs switched to Supermaven after seeing how quickly and concisely it works. I used to work with Cursor, but after trying Supermaven, which has the largest context among any Copilots, I found it instantly reads the context of my project and suggests code in my project's style.

From what I've found on their blog (https://www.cursor.com/blog/problems-2023), Cursor's context is 500k tokens, which is much better than GitHub Copilot's 8k tokens, but still not a competitor for Supermaven's 1m tokens. So in the end, Supermaven learns from your project. The more you write, the more it actually matches your code style.

If that’s the case I’m definitely going to try supermaven,

I have been a cursor for past 3 months and I’m loving it so far but you are right at times it does get slow

Thanks, I tried Supermaven. I'd still rank it at second after Cursor. Supermaven seems to be a good fit for those who are into the flow.

But I can't get any flow thanks to clean architecture, so Cursor works - it modifies the whole pipeline based on your feature.

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