843: Copilot Kills Cursor? Reacting to Github Universe Keynote

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes react to the big GitHub Universe announcements, recorded live at GitHub Universe. They dive into Copilot’s new features, exploring how its advancements stack up against Cursor AI in the battle for the ultimate AI-driven developer tool.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:12 Our Syntax Meetup.
02:54 AI is everywhere.
03:22 Sherlocking and jockeying for position.
04:49 GitHub Copilot introduces alternative LLMs.
- GitHub Copilot
06:31 New tools are build upon existing LLMs.
09:14 VSCode reclaiming ground from Cursor.
- Cursor
10:31 The new features.
- 10:34 Multi-file editing.
- 10:54 Use-cases for multi-file editing.
- 12:58 Multi-model selection.
- 13:05 Repo indexing.
- 13:50 Copilot instructions.
- 14:34 Examples of Cursor rules.
- 16:39 No mention of multiple-line suggestions.
- 18:02 Multi-file edit?
- 20:26 Code review.
- 22:36 GitHub Pull Requests plugin.
- 24:34 Investing in AI ‘big bets’.
- 26:29 Scott’s mysterious YouTube unreleased feature.
- 27:11 3-minute YouTube shorts.
  - Wes’ TikTok.
- 28:29 GitHub Marketplace.
- 32:18 Copilot Workspace.
- 34:53 Copilot Workspace features yet to come.
- 36:25 GitHub Spark.
  - Bolt.new.
42:44 Final thoughts on Copilot vs Cursor.
44:03 What products do you think are in trouble?
50:26 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

Scott: Waymo.
Wes: Waymo.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. Today we got a live one for you. Well, kind of live. Here we are. Me and
0:05.7	Scott in the person. We don't get to see each other all that often. We are here at GitHub Universe.
0:10.9	Pretty exciting that we, a whole bunch of announcements today. So the plan is that we're going to
0:16.0	go through a bunch of the announcements of GitHub Universe, most of them surrounding V-S-code and whatnot.
0:22.7	And we're also, we got playing some guests coming in as well to talk about what's been going
0:27.6	on. But welcome, welcome, Scott. Can I welcome you? How's it going?
0:31.4	You can welcome me? Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, it's been a busy couple of days, right? Yeah, we've been here,
0:36.7	even today just walking around.
0:38.7	There's a lot of people here. I heard like 3,000 plus people.
0:42.6	The scale of some of these conferences just absolutely blows my mind. So we saw a, me and Randy went out back because we wanted to look at all the gear.
0:51.5	And they had a palette. I'm not lying, probably 150 boxes for Wi-Fi access points.
0:57.0	It means like they've, I'm just looking around everywhere of like what the gear is just to set
1:02.1	this place up.
1:03.0	And it's just a gear you're wild.
1:04.9	Yeah, we're just talking about the audio guy about cameras over Ethernet or microphones over Ethernet.
1:10.1	But that's not what we're here to talk about today.
1:11.6	We're here to talk about GitHub Universe.
1:14.1	Oh, let's talk about Syntax Meetup.
1:16.0	We had, so we're in San Francisco.
1:17.9	We're like, let's do a meetup.
1:19.2	We went to Bear Bottle Brewing.
1:21.6	Yeah, at the Salesforce Park.
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