Code Editors

Cursor has an “auto” mode, “but if you care about cost or predictability, it’s worth picking models manually.” says Steve Kinney.

Cursor is an AI-focused VS Code fork. Here’s Steve Kinney with a nice overview of what it offers and how to start getting help out of it right away.

A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what […]

There are A LOT of options these days for getting AI help right in your code editor. What seemed to begin with plugins has morphed into a lot of VS Code forks.

I was compelled by the original release of Zed: Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Atom was a pretty darn fine code editor, only scuttled by the fact that Microsoft bought GitHub back in 2018. Atom was GitHub’s thing, and Microsoft already had VS Code. At the […]