Cursor vs Github Copilot

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We’d love to hear your opinions on Cursor vs GH Copilot!

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I discovered Cursor after github copilot chat started ‘filtering’ responses i.e banal programming questions would get rejected as inappropriate. I found a github issue with multiple people reporting the same issue - after months it was still being ignored. If a main feature of your product is in a borderline unusable state and nobody is addressing user concerns It’s Over, your organization is cooked and the product is not going to improve. A lot of MS products are like this and once you see the pattern it’s all over their developer products - i’m forced to use Power Platform at work and there are similar examples here. I’m not going back and nobody can make me & you could probably classify my preference for cursor as somewhat emotional/irrational

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Not much to say, Cursor is just better across the board. Faster and more accurate with suggestions.

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Cursor has better contextual understanding of the codebase thanks to it’s embeddings and is faster than co pilot. Today i am testing it on a large codebase let’s see how it goes.

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From the very beginning, I used GitHub Copilot extensively. However, lately, I haven’t been using it much, Cursor has proven to be more efficient in that regard. Thank you. The only thing I still use Copilot for is generating git commits.

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Have used copilot before, seen it as basically an autocomplete and did not find that much of a boost in productivity. Cursor is completely different, started building projects that would normally take days and do them in hours. Cursor is a different level for me.

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I find Cursor to be superior in almost every regard compared to Copilot. However, there are a few features in copilot that I appreciate, such as PR description/body generation and the commit message generation. While these features are hit or miss in Copilot, I believe Cursor could implement a more reliable commit message generation feature—still waiting on that! :slight_smile:

Lately, I haven’t been using GitHub Copilot much because, in my experience, Cursor was significantly better. If Copilot has improved recently, I might have missed that…

One thing I do like about Copilot is the unlimited requests, chats, and edits! The limit for fast-requests in Cursor does feel restrictive, even though I rarely hit it. I would appreciate the option to toggle between fast and slow requests, which has been a long-standing request, but it seems unlikely to be implemented anytime soon? :upside_down_face:

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I tried Copilot and Cursor.

I prefer Copilot. The autocomplete prediction was better (for my use case)

Additionally I use ‘ctrl-k’ of the shell to delete characters. I was not able to disable that this triggers the AI pop-up in Cursor.

And I prefer that Copilot is vscode.

In both tools I did not found:

  • Check my PR. Maybe I was blind, but I found no way to do that.

  • Check git history of that selection. I would like to know what changed in that selection (N lines) lately. The AI seems to have no access to that. And especially Cursor started hallucinating. Copilot afaik said directly that it has no access to that information.

And of course check the heading of that forum before taking all pro cursor replies seriously. This place is about Cursor :slight_smile: