Are you still using GitHub Copilot? They offer 8 daily messages for gpt o1 preview and unlimited messages to the latest Claude 3.5, gpt 4o, and soon Gemini, all for $10/month.
In my opinion, if Cursor doesn’t align their offer, people will eventually abandon it. I’m transitioning to GitHub Copilot because I don’t see a future for Cursor. All of Cursor’s features will eventually be replicated, making it feel expensive without any added value.
Microsoft could alter the Visual Studio license or, in a worst-case scenario, make it closed-source. What would happen to Cursor then?
Github Copilot is adding more and more features. Based on the current pricing model for Copilot and roadmaps for 2025 for both products, Cursor seems to be headed in a trajectory where Copilot makes more business sense for organizations.
Are there any significant plans for Cursor other than the 2025 roadmap here? More Problems
I believe the priority for Cursor should be fixing existing bugs. There are many bugs that make the whole experience akin to walking on egg shells - e.g. if I take an existing chat with all the files attached as context and edit the first message, there is no guarantee that all the attached context will be send to the LLM. I have to create a new chat, reattach all the files and make sure I’m not switching editors to avoid some files detaching from the context. For this, I have to open a separate instance of VSCode, and additionally open the files there if I need to read something in them or copy something from there while editing my query to the AI. Then and only then can I be certain that all my files and context are properly attached. Still, I go to Openrouter and double check to make sure the appropriate number of tokens is actually being sent. If I follow all these carefully laid out steps, discovered by trial and error and tons of wasted requires, I can get the perfect solution to my problems. This makes the whole experience very frustrating.
But I’m not sure if there is anything better. Copilot is limited I guess, where you can’t use your own API key, anything else is also limited to some specific functionality. I don’t want to use anything besides VSCode or VSCode forks (I’ve tried a lot of IDEs and so far couldn’t find anything better than VSCode/Cursor for handling all my use cases).
This is the state of software in general unfortunately. There are all these tiny bugs that are not being addressed in months that require you to constantly walk on eggshells. Hopefully AGI comes soon and fixes all this mess.
I used Copilot for a long time and switched to Cursor because I didn’t really see any notable improvement in Copilot - not to mention a lack of context-awareness in larger codebases. Isn’t that the main USP Cursor has? I am genuinely curious if Copilot is getting better at context handling these days.
To be honest, the new Github Copilot edit, and cursor all looks the same to me. Looks like github stole cursor’s idea and made looks like a copy and paste with few minor aesthetic changes.
I was experimenting with GitHub’s new chat feature, and to my surprise, it’s doing the same thing as cursor. You can now use sonnet 3.5 and chatgpt 4o with copilot for no extra charge. All for 10$ month is a deal for me.
cursor blows copilot out of the water- the suggestions are better and the in-line editing is much better. Additionally, copilot doesn’t have anything that touches the functionality of the composer in terms of creating/editing files.
There is an art to using this piece of software and you need to balance the complexity of the instructions you give it. It helps to plan out the project ahead of time and not try to have cursor do too much at once- rather, guide it to do what you want. This is why it’s still a tool to be operated by a developer that has domain knowledge on whatever he/she is trying to do.
Well, Copilot isn’t quite there yet, but I agree that they are heading in the right direction with a solid approach. So, Cursor should reassess its pricing; $20 for only 500 fast queries isn’t a good deal, especially with so many competitors around
Co-pilot has been utterly destroyed by Cursor. Read the documentation for Cursor to become more feature aware of the massive differences and capabilities cursor has – Cursor - Build Software Faster – then pay up and start coding
I am paying the subscription but issues like 