CodePen? AI Editors are like Pens for Code

Replacing Cursor AI with Aider and Zed. Open Source LLMs and DeepSeek-R1. 90% of my code is now written by AI—half by Claude, some by OpenAI, and a bit by Ollama.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://prototypr.io/post/ai-editor-aider-cursor
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right now it is too easy for switching from Cursor to Windsurf etc. I read this post that is a similar topic, AI IDEs need moats. I wonder where it will all go…

Thanks @rob-diaz, great point, I feel like that article hits the issue well from the IDE company perspective! I’ve added it to my new notes post on the same topic: