Ask HN: Which IDE with AI integration is the best as of today?

7 points·yu3zhou4··7 comments

I use both Cursor IDE and vanilla VS Code with GitHub Copilot and imho Cursor (Pro) still works better than VS Code with Copilot. But perhaps you have different experiences? Also, how about other IDEs than these two? Are there better alternatives?

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Had a horrible time with Github copilot personally. It just wasn't 'smart' enough and I felt I ended up double checking more than I would like.

Recently started using Cursor compose. It really good and generally makes me code a lot faster. But I have noticed that you have to ensure its following best practices.

For example, if you are writing some React code, you really have to ask it to break up components into files / sub-components, otherwise you end up with a 1000 line long file

Which model do you use for React? Different models behave quite differently. Sonnet-3.5 seems to do quite well at writing several files at once.

My daily IDE is Jetbrains PyCharm/PhpStorm with Tabnine for autocomplete/chat and Jetbrains AI for commit messages (I am that lazy).

I use Cursor IDE with composer for AI stuff. Switch back to Jetbrains git for diff view where I check and edit the changes. I try to spend as less time as possible in VSCode.

I hope there will be a Jetbrains variant of Cursor soon. Deleting VSCode will be the happiest day of my life.

Cursor.sh, and its not even close.

OpenAI o1 pro is also very good

Still with Cursor. Tried Windsurf for 2 seconds and came back.

>> Tried Windsurf for 2 seconds and came back.

Can you share some details, I was planning to try Windsurf during the holidays but may skip if you have negative feedback that may be agreeable. Thanks.

I don't remember but can try again if you need. Cursor really got the 1 or 2 interface details right.

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