Cursor

The quality of code changes/ suggestions, ability to generate mermaid diagrams, testing, documentation generation, is just amazing. We can also create teams with our colleagues and share rules.

- ease of use - much faster to navigate to code paths and understand execution source - much faster to learn new codebases - since it's forked from VSCode, it was easy to import my existing setup

It's fast, and especially with 4o and later, generally produces code that is executable on the first or 2nd try.

Being based on open source code, there was almost no learning curve for our developers; but devs accustomed to other IDEs struggled with changes in key shortcuts and UI feature changes.

- it tends to loop on the same solution when it doesn't know what to do - the edit/undo flow can be unintuitive and overwhelming when typing in the middle of a suggestion. making edits during a agent suggestions blends who actually made those changes

Cursor sometimes gets the context wrong if you have more than one file with the same name in a workspace even and will try to edit the wrong file even though it is not open. It really struggles if you try to rename or edit a file outside of Cursor even if you close and reopen that file in context. Occasionally, it will do things you didn't ask for like edit files not in context or generate voluminous documentation files.