Cursor: a short review of the AI VSCode

Cursor is all the rage ATM - the hype machine really has gone into overdrive, with talking heads on Twitter extolling the new found ability for man to code in English.

Whilst this is clearly coming,

Cursor seems like magic, but also… it just wrote code in a way that took several hours to debug and I ended up re-writing by hand.

Excellent for simple / short stuff - co-pilot style coding as you go, auto-imports etc - but the limited context window prevents it becoming truly useful. It can't refactor a single file, let alone consider issues or changes cross-codebase.

Surely this is coming, but we are most definitely not there yet and Cursor - although pointing the way - falls way short (as of Sept 2024).