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get up co-pilot has added a free tier
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for visual studio code users and in the
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last year has caught up massively to
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cursor feature set but is it as good as
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cursor let's find out the first thing we
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need to look at is the edit with
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co-pilot feature this gives you the
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ability to read and write from multiple
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files in your codebase at a time you can
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even use a number of context tools such
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as the hasht codebase modifier to
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automatically search and find relevant
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files for you as it generates you'll see
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the code updat stream in and then you
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can review them one by one and accept or
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discard them all in a click in this case
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I asked co-pilot to add to our admin API
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the ability to read and write the
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comments collection and in short it
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didn't do a good job it simply didn't
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find the correct files or make the
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correct Updates this is a prompt I've
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seen successful pretty much every time
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with cursor and wind surf I tried it
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multiple times and it never worked
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correctly to make things worse when you
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use the codebase modifier to pull files
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automatically so you don't have to
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manually list them as context the search
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can be incredibly slow I've waited it's
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just for the search to complete and then
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sometimes I just get an error and it
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doesn't work at all this time I'm trying
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to much simpler prompt fix a bug in our
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existing site so that we do client side
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routing correctly instead of server side
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this is something that even Devon was
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able to do correctly it's never really
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failed with cursor and wind Surf and
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first it's taking an eternity with
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GitHub co-pilot this content. TSX file
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has been updating forever I actually
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think it's broken right now but I can
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already tell it didn't do the right
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thing the correct solution is just to
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set this no clients side routing
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variable to false pretty much every tool
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is able to pick that up yet get up cold
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pilot updated tons of files and code it
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simply just completely got stuck on
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content. TSX and it's in a broken
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infinite loading State I was really
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excited to try this feature and the ux
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seems pretty good but I've been
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disappointed by it quality and bugginess
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and slowness and I really just cannot
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see myself using this day to day but hey
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technically this feature is in preview
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even though it's enabled by default so
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maybe with a little time they'll make
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this better to me the multi-file editing
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agent feature is The Shining most
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important feature of cursor windsurf and
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the like note that I am using one other
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new feature from GitHub which is you can
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now choose what model you want which
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includes claw 3.5 Sonet which is
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undoubtedly the best model today for
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coding it's what curser and Winsor fed
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by default and I'm using it so we can
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Apple's to Apple's comparison on code
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generation if you're curious if when
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using GPT 40 the default model that's
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not in preview if I got better results
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with even the simple prompt about client
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side routing unfortunately the answer is
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no get up copilot is still trying to
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update files that don't even make sense
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like it's removing get static props it's
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also listing files in this working set
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that apparently didn't even update so
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the AI regenerated this file but didn't
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actually change anything at all in the
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file there's no death so I'm honestly
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just hitting ux problems over the place
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I also gave the same PRT to try with ow
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and mini it's not any better it's not
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doing it right and it's just wiping out
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our Java Script for some reason I also
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tried with ow and preview and it's still
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not doing anything it's really really
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broken for me for some reason let's
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compare that to cursor where I like to
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use the agent mode by default so I don't
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have to tag codebase it automatically
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searches the codebase and finds relevant
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files the codebase search is incredibly
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fast compared to GitHub and the output
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starts streaming a lot sooner too but
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most importantly cursor actually doing
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the correct thing and identified the
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admin graphql API it's adding the models
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and resolvers that I need and hooking up
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this to the API correctly I've had the
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same good results with this with wind
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surf as well now let's try fixing the
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routing bug with cursor this one uses a
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smaller code basee so I really thought
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get up Coke pilot would be able to do
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this one and cursor does it exactly
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right it finds a variable it flips the
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buole in it's a really simple fix but
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hey maybe it was unfair for us to
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compare cursor's best feature to one of
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get up copilot's newest features let's
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touch on another couple great features
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that copal has added one of my all-time
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favorite AI features is AI in the
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terminal just hit command ey the AI will
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spit out a results hit command enter to
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run it now you don't actually need to be
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a bash wizard to pretend you're a bash
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wizard cursor has B basically the same
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thing except it hijacks command K in the
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terminal which drives me crazy I hate
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that I like command ey better one other
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cool feature get up copilot has is the
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ability to autogenerate a commit message
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which it does pretty nice by default
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when cursor generates commit messages it
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can be a little bit more verbose which
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is not quite my style but it's fine I
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can just delete the rest of this stuff
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another nice thing that gup copilot has
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now is custom instructions by adding a
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GitHub copilot instructions. MD file
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it's basically the equivalent of cursor
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cursor rules get up co-pilot supports
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inline autocomplete it was frankly the
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OG of Aid driven inline autocomplete and
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it does a good job but cursor takes
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things even further by being able to
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suggest inline updates to multiple lines
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you can hit tab to complete as well as
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the standard usual stuff you know tab to
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complete works fine overall though it's
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the composer that makes cursor really
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shine as a result I want to do one more
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test to see if co-pilot can compete here
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instead of taking an existing code base
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I'm going to start with something new
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from scratch let's simulate a real world
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endtoend work flow with a bare minimum
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code base and see how they compare I'm
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going to start by making a brand new
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fresh remix app and I'm going to take
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this design and figma and convert it to
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code with builder. I'll grab the CLI
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command and I'm going to paste it in the
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cursor terminal we're now generating the
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code for the design matching the style
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and components and theme of our code
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base and now I've got my beautiful
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design in code I'm going to ask cursor
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to replace this placeholder with a table
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of users so I said replace the table
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placeholder with a table of users from
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random user. me so let's see if it can
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find the right location generate a UI
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including API data all right looks like
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it did great it found the right location
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and it added the table even with a nice
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hover effect now let's try the same
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prompt over with get up co-pilot we need
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to manually tag that we need to include
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the code base as well co-pilot again
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takes a lot longer and it didn't even do
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it correctly it didn't even include it
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where it's supposed to go honestly this
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code would have never worked anyway it's
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totally incomplete let's try again this
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time specifically manually adding the
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file we want that has the user table
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placeholder and wait a a super long time
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again and thank goodness it did
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something this time it did add a table
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doesn't look quite as nice or have the
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images but that's fine the codee's also
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not as good cursor put the table into
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its own component and file whereas vs
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code just added all this stuff in line
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which is just kind of Messier but the
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thing I think that's more clear to me
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now is don't trust getup co-pilots
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indexing always manually tag files when
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you want to use them in the multi-file
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editing interface for me personally I
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hate doing that I feel like it's a waste
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of my time I love wind Surf and cursor's
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agent that I can just type things
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figures out what it needs to see what it
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needs to do and just does it reliably
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with surprisingly clean and functional
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code overall though these are two
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feature packed AI coding assistants for
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me I'm willing to pay $20 a month and so
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I'm more than happy with cursor and I
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see no reason here to switch to GI up
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co-pilot but that said GitHub co-pilot
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has a free tier and while you may hit
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the free tier limits after not long and
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need to upgrade anyway plan start at
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just $10 a month in my biased opinion
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you should pay $20 for cursor cursor
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saves me hour of coding if you learn to
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use it well and you value your time at
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all I think kurur is more than worth it
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if you want a lower cost option that's
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similarly good and feature Rich wind
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surf is really really good too but hey
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I'd personally still take gith up
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co-pilot plus vs code over some IDs like
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Zed or intellig for a full rundown of
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get up copilot versus cursor take a look
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at our full article in the builder. blog
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and in the blog you'll also find
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comparisons with wind surf Devon Klein
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and a bunch of other AI tools but
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ultimately what matters most is what do
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you prefer what is your favorite
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favorite AI tool let me know in the
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comments and I'll catch you next time
