I fell in love with Github copilot when it was launched in 2021. It is genius idea: code is low-entropy which means that as programmers we are bottlenecked by keystroke throughput when transferring our ideas into code. (It is still an amazing product.) But to the entire Cursor team, a few things felt missing. We found ourselves needing to delete characters to nudge Copilot to rewrite them for us — even on simple edits. This needed extra keystrokes, the exact thing we were trying to save. Even worse, the model didn't feel smart. Sometimes it just wouldn't get what we were trying to do, even for edits that to us felt trivial. Copilot++ is our attempt at solving the right problem. We trained a model can see the edits you have made in the last few minutes. This makes it feel much smarter. We also gave Copilot++ the ability to edit your code, so that a single Tab could finally get you to exactly where you wanted to be. Copilot++ is still an early version — we plan latency to be cut in half over the next few months, and reduce the false-positive rate. But we already find it really useful, and think you might too. It truly shines when you're in the weeds, coding, and may shine a little bit less bright if you're just trying it out on toy examples. Please try it out and we would love your feedback.

Big congratulations Sualeh, well done 🦄

This is one of the best tools I have found in the last 3 years. I tried it a few months ago and changed from vs. code to cursor almost instantly. It is like having another team member in your company. Congrats on the launch!

As someone who has tried every available AI coding assistant in the market, I gotta say, nothing beats Cursor. It’s, by far, the best right now.

I checked out the product, and it looks and works really great! Love the UI as well as the onboarding process, its fairly seamless. Plus the actual code generation and completions work well as well! How do you manage to offer it for free while using GPT-4?

@sualeh_asif Congrats on the launch Sualeh! Would love to play poker with you at The Founders Invitational: producthunt.com/posts/the-founders-invitational

Congratulations to the Cursor team on the launch! The ability to train a model to understand recent edits and make smarter suggestions is truly ingenious. It's already proving to be incredibly useful, especially when deep in coding trenches. Great work!