[szemy2]

Can someone please elaborate how Cursor is different to Copilot?

[rco8786]

The founders did an episode on Lex Fridman's podcast that covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4

But to summarize, Copilot is an okay ChatGPT wrapper for single line code completion. Cursor is a full IDE with AI baked in natively, with use-case specific models for different tasks, intelligent look-ahead, multi-line completion, etc.

If Copilot is a horse, Cursor is a Model T.

[sexyman48]

For me, the main draw is Cursor's repo-wide indexing (presumably a RAG pass). I asked Copilot to unify two functions, one at the top of a massive file, and the other at the bottom. Since they were so far apart, Copilot couldn't see both functions at the same time. Cursor didn't give me a great answer, but it did give *an* answer.

[szemy2]

You can pass in @workspace before the prompt (in copilot chat) and it looks at the full context. It works OK, I could imaging Cursor being more powerful in this!