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🚨 MICROSOFT VS CURSOR & WINDSURF: THE AI IDE WAR JUST GOT SPICY! Microsoft is BLOCKING Cursor & Windsurf from using VS Code extensions via licensing restrictions. 😱 Cursor (a full VS Code fork) & Windsurf (a plugin-based IDE) are now scrambling

I saw a guy coding today. No cursor. No windsurf. No chatgpt. He just sat there. Typing code manually. What do you guys think?

well for developers they've got cursor , windsurf and Claude code but not a single reliable ai design for UI designing

I’ve switched to Windsurf from Cursor and it’s so much better. Doesn’t throttle or get buggy even after hours of use.

Why New Devs Struggle – Even with Cursor & Windsurf AI tools are — Cursor writes code, Windsurf feels like coding on clouds. But most new devs still get stuck. Why? Because they skip the thinking. They want shortcuts, not skills. They prompt, copy

Microsoft owns VSCode and makes money from OpenAI. OpenAI invested in Windsurf and Cursor. Cursor, now worth more than Windsurf, started by copying/modifying Microsoft’s VSCode. So Microsoft indirectly helped create Cursor - but doesn’t control i

I was feeling depressed so I sat down to write code and get my mind off of things. It's 7 in the morning, I have changed about 800+ lines of code and life's good again. I keep forgetting tech is the true god.

should i build an ai code assistant like cursor?

New Coders, Stop Using Cursor & Windsurf So Early Yes, they’re cool. Yes, they feel powerful. But if you're still learning to code — they’re hurting you, not helping. You're skipping the grind. You're letting AI do the thinking. You're building o