My expertise utilizing VSCode (GitHub Copilot) and Cursor (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) as a Knowledge Scientist.
As builders, we’re continually trying to find instruments to reinforce our productiveness and make coding extra pleasant. I’ve been utilizing Visible Studio Code (VSCode) for over six years, it has been the go-to built-in growth surroundings (IDE) for nearly all of the builders I’ve labored with.
In 2023, Cursor (designed by the Anysphere analysis lab) raised $8M from OpenAI and $11M in complete funding as they delivered the message:
Within the subsequent few years, we’d wish to construct a code editor that’s extra useful, pleasant, and enjoyable than the world has ever seen.
In 2024, many builders started testing or totally transitioning to utilizing Cursor as their main IDE of selection.
The aim of this text is to provide you a first-person perspective on my expertise utilizing Cursor and the way I examine it to VSCode. Particularly, I can be discussing how every IDE performs for Knowledge Science when utilizing their respective AI help capabilities.