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Vibe Coding: Developer Slot Machines (Cursor, Windsurf)


The illusion of AI productivity and switching between VS Code Forks like casino slot machines: Cursor and Windsurf. What code will come out next? Which IDE will I use today? All of them!

Illusion of AI Productivity by @forrestbrazeal Today I spent $10 trying out the recent Claude 3.7 MAX model, finding it amazing at first, only to find it crashing to nothing like a house of cards(as Addy Osmani put it). When Windsurf stops spitting out in good code, I'll probably jump back over to Cursor. Windsurf, Cursor, and all the other VS Code forks can open the same workspace files, and you can drag tabs between each of them, as if they're the same program:

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