Gabriel Castanhel

At @Bucket, we're always looking for products that can boost productivity and inspire us to build better software. We recently experimented with @Cursor to replace @Github Copilot.

Key takeaways

• Tab completion: Cursor includes a helpful tab completion feature, suggesting refactorings and improvements as you go huge time saver!

• Chat: the chat/composer is better than Copilot as it can modify across files in the codebase. However, we still needed to correct the code most of the time :/

• Full context: Cursor has full context, so it provides more helpful advice and changes

• Generating comments: it makes it easier to add code comments they need clarifications from time to time tho

• Working with existing codebases: Cursor seems better at writing code from scratch than contributing to large existing codebases

• Hallucinations: as far as we can tell, it had fewer hallucinations compared to alternatives

• Prompting strategies: being somewhat specific in prompts by referencing classes and functions seems to work well We're currently experimenting with `.cursorrules` files to improve prompt quality