Developer slot machines
I started getting frustrated waiting for Claude 3.5 to spin in circles inside Cursor, and then exchanging my coins for Claude 3.7 tokens like a developer slot machine (from a user experience perspective), not knowing what code is going to come out. It's so easy to pay more too, with just a click:
Meanwhile, my friend was raving about Windsurf building his Town events community app, and I also started hearing how Windsurf might be outperforming Cursor, prompting me to give Windsurf another look.
The fact that Windsurf is unseating Cursor right now is a signal that, even with commodity LLMs, Windsurf is offering a better product than Cursor.
I don't know if it'll turn out better yet, but it's so easy to try.
With everything being built on VS Code, it feels like I'm just moving onto the next slot machine in the same casino. When Windsurf stops spitting out in good code, I'll probably jump back over to Cursor.