# What's your experience with AI development tools like Copilot, Cursor and Windsurf? **URL:** \ **Category:** MoT Content Discussions\ **Tags:** tools, ai, quality-engineering\ **Created:** [10 June 2025 11:43 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226 "2025-06-10T11:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mwinteringham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mwinteringham/32/9023_2.png) [@mwinteringham](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mwinteringham)\ **Post date:** [10 June 2025 11:43 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/1 "2025-06-10T11:43:07Z")
Have a look at my article published by MoT, “[Lessons in quality engineering from working with Cursor and Windsurf.](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/articles/lessons-in-quality-engineering-from-working-with-cursor-and-windsurf)” The article shares a real-life story of how AI-assisted tools like Cursor and Windsurf help and hinder development and what we can learn from it as Quality engineers. **What You’ll Learn:** - Real-life experiences of how AI-assisted development tools help and hinder engineering - What AI-assisted tools are capable of - The impact AI-assisted tools will have on quality. **After reading, share your thoughts:** - Are your team members using AI-assisted tools? Or are there still concerns? - What are your experiences with working AI-assisted tools like Copilot, Cursor and Windsurf? - What risks do you see in teams adopting AI-assisted tools? ---
**Author:** ![lili](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/lili/32/14839_2.png) [@lili](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/lili)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2025 07:19 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/2 "2025-06-11T07:19:46Z")
Once again I am coming across the word “overreliance” just like what Automation is vs. Manual testing 🤣 > We can’t rely too much on AI agents or chat because we can easily lose understanding of what we’re building. 👆 this! I’ve only ever experienced Copilot with GPT and I must say: just like everything AI is at present-day, ultimately it’s still the user or creator that will finish the job. Some requests are hard to put into words (prompts) and a solution/addition only manifests once it is already out there. > There are lots of opportunities to move faster with AI, but it requires informed and intelligent ways of working with them Time is indeed still needed to use AI effectively! – _Shady Meadows review : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5_ ---
**Author:** ![michelangelo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/michelangelo/32/2354_2.png) [@michelangelo](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/michelangelo)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2025 10:01 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/3 "2025-06-11T10:01:32Z")
Hey Mark, Thank you for sharing your story interacting with AI and experiencing the current quirks that sound really familiar to me. I’m on a similar exploration where I use Junie in JetBrains InteliJ IDE as an assistive AI agent to generate code with tests for me. What I observed was that the AI agent wants tests to pass, not by generating quality tests but by changing the configuration to be less strict. Did you experience this as well? ---
**Author:** ![hananurrehman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/hananurrehman/32/14717_2.png) [@hananurrehman](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/hananurrehman)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2025 11:40 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/4 "2025-06-11T11:40:10Z")
> [@mwinteringham](#): > > - What are your experiences with working AI-assisted tools like Copilot, Cursor and Windsurf? We only use Copilot and Chatgpt. I feel the chatgpt model in Copilot could be a little more intelligent. Many times I found the standalone LLM to be better at reasoning. ---
**Author:** ![arcigo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/arcigo/32/9200_2.png) [@arcigo](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/arcigo)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2025 13:47 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/5 "2025-06-11T13:47:23Z")
Thanks for your article. I agree with you: We can’t rely completely on AI to do all the stuff. Weeks ago I tried to give a full try to vibe coding for a scenario I automated. I regretted what was happening at the beginning and decided to do the process the artisanal way, and for some things I used AI. I use ChatGPT in Copilot, Claude and Grok. ---
**Author:** ![ghawkes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ghawkes/32/10000_2.png) [@ghawkes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ghawkes)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2025 14:39 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/whats-your-experience-with-ai-development-tools-like-copilot-cursor-and-windsurf/85226/6 "2025-06-12T14:39:43Z")
Brilliant article, thoroughly recommended read! 🤜 At the moment the risk in our organisation is that the use of AI is starting up in pockets with varying degrees of enthusiasm. They range from a dev that is vibe coding as much as they can, to others not wanting to use AI in case the deskill themselves. I did a confluence guidelines document on Gen AI and presented it to my quality engineers to encourage them to use AI and share their experience - logging the prompts that gave them real benefit. At the moment the document only contains my prompts. 😬 We use primarily Co-Pilot, but we are now investigating agents such as augmentcode.