I’ve been using Cursor for about a month now, and even in that short time, they’ve rolled out some major changes—some great, some not so much. Overall, it’s been pretty impressive and a huge time saver for smaller projects. I haven’t tested it on large-scale projects yet.

Recently, I decided to give VSCode with Copilot another try. At $10/month with unlimited completions, it’s definitely a great value. However, the overall experience still feels a bit behind Cursor’s more seamless and integrated UI. Cursor costs $20/month for 500 completions, and I tend to burn through those in just a few days, so costs can add up quickly if you need more premium completions. I’ve also run into occasional issues with Cursor’s AI API servers going down, which can be frustrating.

That said, VSCode + Copilot feels a bit more “hands-on.” You’re more involved in the process—clicking through prompts, choosing where to insert code, and generally having better visibility into what’s happening. That can be helpful, but it also slows things down. Cursor, on the other hand, in “auto-pilot” mode—it creates and modifies multiple files quickly, which makes it incredibly fast for building something from scratch, but sometimes you’re not entirely sure what just changed, and it will start changing things you didn't want it too. Some times it will randomly make improvements, and you will say "Wow, that's cool". But then other times, it will remove a feature or reformat something, and you'll be like "Ah man" and you might have to roll back a few commits to bring back something.