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title: "Coding With Cursor and Windsurf Side by Side"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-with-cursor-and-windsurf-side-by-side-993bmd2qc
source_url: https://neon.com/blog/coding-with-cursor-and-windsurf-side-by-side
type: article
source: "Neon"
published: 2026-07-09T06:58:07.355Z
updated: 2026-07-09T07:02:46.321Z
tags: ["python", "ai-assisted-development", "vibe-coding", "windsurf"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Coding With Cursor and Windsurf Side by Side

**[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A hands-on comparison of Cursor and Windsurf, two AI-powered VSCode forks, tested side by side while developing the Neon Python driver. Cursor stands out for tab completions and fine-grained context control (custom rules, docs, git history), while Windsurf excels at automatic context indexing and codebase-wide awareness in agentic workflows. Both agents struggle with complex logic but shine at test generation and frontend tasks. Windsurf's recently released Wave 5 with Windsurf Tab has narrowed the tab completion gap significantly.

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Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding), [#windsurf](https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf)

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