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Is Cursor better than VS Code with Copilot? Absolutely and it’s not close
Cursor 3.7 + Claude is the first time for me in coding that AI has got to a level that makes it absolutely ridiculous. It is far better than VS Code with CoPilot.
An example application that I made will be the best to illustrate this point.
I wanted a simple application that tracks the amount of pages that I read per day and then creates some achievements.
Plus I thought it would be fun to also have a graph of pages read per day and then also a GitHub style chart to show days of the year that I have read.
Now here is the crazy thing… I built the above app, in 2 prompts.
Here was the workflow.
- First I got Claude to write me a description markdown file explaining what needs to be done in the project.
Then with the prompts that I was doing in Cursor I asked the model to make a change and then update the changelog as it was going. That way I only had to pass the main Markdown file and the Changelog as context.
- I used a simple Create T3 App for this and Railway for the database.
The funny thing about building this app?
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I built it in an hour in Ikea while I was waiting for my friend to do some shopping.
