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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

should i build an ai code assistant like cursor?

It’s wrappers all the way down: • Cursor is a wrapper over VS Code • VS Code is a wrapper over Electron • Electron is a wrapper over Chromium • Chromium is a wrapper over C++ • C++ is a wrapper over Assembly • Assembly is a wrapper over 1s and 0s

Did you know ? Gemini has a free alternative to Cursor You can install Gemini Code Assist at no cost directly in VS Code just by using your Google account: → Gemini 2.5 → 240 chat requests DAILY → 180,000 completions /month

Forget Cursor — here’s your new Google Code Editor! Thanks, here you go! 👇 You can install Google Gemini Code Assist by following this simple guide: 🔗 https://codeassist.google/ ⸻ 🧩 How to Install: 1. Open your code editor (VS Code or Cursor).

If you're a student and haven’t tried Cursor yet, now’s the time. Cursor just made their AI coding editor completely free for students. It’s like VS Code with an AI pair programmer built in and it actually understands your codebase (better than Copil

"Just a GPT wrapper." "Just a VS Code clone." Yet they're worth billions. Same tools. Same time. But they shipped. You scrolled. Maybe it’s time we stop spectating and start building. Cursor didn’t wait. Why are you?

What took an hour to fix with Lovable, I was able to fix in 30 seconds with Cursor. I wonder if it's better to use multiple AIs and use the right one for the right job. Lovable is good for doing things quickly, and Cursor seems like it's good to ask