AI Tools

Will Windsurf AI be an alternative to Cursor AI?

My thoughts on these AI-based IDEs.

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I see most of the developers around me and in my network, they started to incorporate AI tools in their development practice both personal and professional. Most of the top companies also recommended their developers use their enterprise version of AI tools in their organizations. There are 2 AI IDEs I see mostly in use and spoken everywhere that are helpful to building their freelancing App creation works.

So I also tried to use them for my learning projects and tested how efficient for my work. I thought to share my thoughts on these tools that I have experienced so, that will be helpful to the developers for their work.

Simple Introduction

Windsurf and Cursor have emerged as prominent AI-assisted code editors, sparking debate about which tool reigns supreme. Both editors are built on top of the VS Code editor so they provide most of the features VS Code has.

Code Quality

Both Windsurf and Cursor primarily utilize models from Anthropic and OpenAI, often defaulting to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a strong language model (LLM) for code output. Because they share the…