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Cursor: A code editor built for programming with AI

14 points by mntruell 3y ago

yakaccount4 3y ago
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.
redgetan 3y ago
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 .
- wruza 3y ago
  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.
  - mntruell 3y ago
    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)
- swuecho 3y ago
  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.
- leeoniya 3y ago
  i was also curious, very bizarre. also 120 forks. https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor here's what that looks like compared to hitting the HN front page for ~12hrs: https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor&leeoniya/ufuzzy https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor&leeoniya/ufuzzy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035580
- mntruell 3y ago
  minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media
Deukhoofd 3y ago
So 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?
- swuecho 3y ago
  it has free chatgpt4 and copilot is a joke at now.
wdib 3y ago
Didn't OpenAI invest in this company...?
mntruell 3y ago
just added some more documentation to the readme. ty for the feedback!

14 points by mntruell 3y ago

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.

redgetan 3y ago

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 .

wruza 3y ago
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.
- mntruell 3y ago
  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)
swuecho 3y ago
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.
leeoniya 3y ago
i was also curious, very bizarre. also 120 forks. https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor here's what that looks like compared to hitting the HN front page for ~12hrs: https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor&leeoniya/ufuzzy https://star-history.com/#getcursor/cursor&leeoniya/ufuzzy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035580
mntruell 3y ago
minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media

Deukhoofd 3y ago

So 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?

swuecho 3y ago
it has free chatgpt4 and copilot is a joke at now.

wdib 3y ago

Didn't OpenAI invest in this company...?

mntruell 3y ago

just added some more documentation to the readme. ty for the feedback!