This thesis has existed since Cursor first started, and the gap between them and VSCode has only widened since then. It’s worth spending some time thinking about why that may be before having such strong conviction about their demise.
What is in this gap? Do you know of any good resources that outline the features that Cursor provides over VSCode with Copilot?
stuff like background agents cursor is way ahead.
Zed Editor is a nice contender too
Zed is very nice, it’s just a totally different workflow. I think people who work in a domain where AI is not particularly strong would be better off with Zed, since Cursor’s way of reviewing edits is a little clumsy.
But i tihnk that's UX polish they can fix it if they cared
we'll see i guess maybe MS prefers to just buy them out?
Cursor getting out of price tho
Copilot is good enough, even the free tier gets whatever annoying tasks I don't want to do done. Anything more complex I already have a Gemini and ChatGPT subscription so I just do the old copy paste.
* cursor has great taste and that's hard to replicate at MS scale
* Microsoft had allegiance to OpenAI early on which reduced their experimentation with other models