Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by eisfresser on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:48AM (#43959991)

Windsurf at the moment. It now can run multiple "flows" in parallel, so I can set one cascade off to look into a bug somewhere while another cascade implements a feature elswhere in the code base. The LLMs spit out their tokens in the background, I drop in eventually to reveiew and accept or ask for further changes.

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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by ximeng on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:23AM (#43960167)

Cursor offers this too - open different tabs in chat and ask for different changes; they’ll run in parallel.

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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by frainfreeze on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:27AM (#43961467)

Until you change model in one of the tabs and all other tabs (and editor instances!) get model changed, stop what they're doing, lose context etc. There is also a bug where if you have two editors working on two codebases they get lost and start working on same thing, I suppose there is some kind of a background workspace that gets mixed up.

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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by mirekrusin on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:45AM (#43960258)

Zed has this background flow as well, you can see in the video [0] from their latest blog post.

[0] https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor

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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by Alifatisk on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:09AM (#43960103)

We are truly living in the future

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