[freddref]

How is Devin different from cursor?

I recently used cursor and it has felt very capable in implementing tasks across files. I get that cursor is an IDE but it's ai functionality feels very agentic.. where do you draw the line?

[jondwillis]

Cursor Composer (both "normal" and "agent" mode) fit the colloquial definition of agent, for sure.

[Xmd5a]

I had to look up MCST: it means Model-Centric Software Tools, as opposed to autonomous agents.

Devin is closer to a long-running process that you can interact with as it is processing tasks, whereas Cursor is closer to a function call: once you've made the call, the only think you can do is wait for the result.

[noodletheworld]

It stands for Monte Carlo search tree.

Ie. Better outputs from models, not external tooling and prompt engineering.

https://github.com/zz1358m/MCTS-AHD-master

[Xmd5a]

Thanks for the correction, I guess I was lured by yet another LLM confabulation