Cursor: A code editor built for programming with AI
github.comSo looking through the dependencies, it's CodeMirror with a VsCode theme on top of it, that includes Copilot. Why wouldn't I just use an existing editor with Copilot support?
it has free chatgpt4 and copilot is a joke at now.
just added some more documentation to the readme. ty for the feedback!
Im curious. How did the github repo get 1.9k stars after just 2 weeks of development. Was it shared heavily on chinese social media (I noticed lots of github issues were written in chinese) ? I couldn't find any traces of it on twitter/google .
AI is still in an info-phase Bitcoin was in before 2017. Tech news are 50% AI, but it’s not on TV or in general public chit-chat yet. Expected to see an avalanche of fake/fraud/phony products based on it as we’ve seen about blockchain. It’s surprising it took so long, actually.
Also expected to see some bs in a spirit of (but unlike) NFTs.
def a lot of fluff in the space!
fwiw, feel quite strongly that LLMs will result in big productivity increases for many developers in the near-term
started working on cursor bc I think a ton of speedups would require editor-level changes (e.g. more mundane ones liek auto-fixing errors from the terminal/LSP, much better code nav/understanding using auto-generated docs; wackier ones like letting you edit a pseudocode version of your codebase)
i was also curious, very bizarre. also 120 forks.
https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor
here's what that looks like compared to hitting the HN front page for ~12hrs:
minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media
most of chinese are cut off from chatgpt.
I use cursor to generate code and then edit in vscode. it is free and generate good code.
There's nothing on the official website or GitHub that indicates what this software is, other than a cropped screenshot that looks like vscode with a prompt pop up over it.
Edit: I still can't figure out if this is just some sarcastic joke software or something.
Didn't OpenAI invest in this company...?