My expertise utilizing VSCode (GitHub Copilot) and Cursor (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) as a Information Scientist.
As builders, we’re always looking for instruments to reinforce our productiveness and make coding extra gratifying. I’ve been utilizing Visible Studio Code (VSCode) for over six years, it has been the go-to built-in growth setting (IDE) for nearly all of the builders I’ve labored with.
In 2023, Cursor (designed by the Anysphere analysis lab) raised $8M from OpenAI and $11M in whole funding as they delivered the message:
Within the subsequent few years, we’d wish to construct a code editor that’s extra useful, pleasant, and enjoyable than the world has ever seen.
In 2024, many builders started testing or totally transitioning to utilizing Cursor as their main IDE of alternative.
The aim of this text is to offer you a first-person perspective on my expertise utilizing Cursor and the way I evaluate it to VSCode. Particularly, I will probably be discussing how every IDE performs for Information Science when utilizing their respective AI help capabilities.
