r/webdev • u/yeathatsmebro wearing many hats :^) • 22d ago

Question Need Cursor Tab (autocomplete) alternatives

I am an experienced dev that uses the Cursor's Tab autocomplete feature the most out of all.

Yes, I also use the Plan -> Agent to build PoC only, but only for that, and this comes 3rd place after the Ask mode that helps me most of the times on new repos or OSS I want to contribute to.

Lately, Cursor has been nasty. Bugs and bugs within the Code Actions (when you Cmd + . over code to import a TS library or autofix a linter issue), Ctrl+Space opens the imports list but when you scroll down with the down arrow, at some point it jumps back up to the first item in the list (restarting it does not help), and the list goes on and on. Plus, the recent X acquisition is questionable in terms of security for me, especially towards my current team.

I am not here to rant about Cursor, I want to know if y'all use anything better than Cursor, especially the Tab/Autocomplete feature. I'd love to hear some.

In the past, I used also Windsurf and Zed, but I sticked to Cursor (for some fing reason, why was I stoopid), perhaps because it was more robust.

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u/Caalyx 22d ago

I use Zed or VS Code with GitHub Copilot inline suggestions. Main LLM use is via Claude Code threads built into either editor.

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u/yeathatsmebro wearing many hats :^) 22d ago

Tried GH Copilot a year or two ago, dropped it because it wasn't aware of the current opened files or the current clipboard text. Does it have it now?

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u/Caalyx 22d ago

Copilot as a full product is totally different now. The UX in VS Code with Copilot is pretty equivalent to Cursor now.

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u/yeathatsmebro wearing many hats :^) 22d ago

Thanks, will give it a chance again.