IDE-first, agent inside the editor, Devin Local reviews the diff before push. Different agent than Cursor: Devin Local is more autonomous on multi-step tasks. The trade-off vs Cursor: less hunk-by-hunk granularity, more 'kick it off and review what it did'.
Devin Local plans across files and runs the plan with less hand-holding than Composer. After the agent finishes, ask it to review its own diff before you push, it's the same model that wrote the code, but the second pass catches its own omissions.
VS Code fork — keymap and extensions carry over.
Hand it the plan from Claude (or describe the change directly). Devin Local plans + executes; you review the result, not each step.
In Devin Local, ask 'review the diff for issues before I push'. The agent rereads its own work and flags missed edge cases. Catches ~70% of what an external reviewer would. Push, then open the PR.
Ran the same refactor tickets through Windsurf and Cursor. Windsurf shipped ~20% faster on the multi-file work because the hunk-by-hunk overhead in Composer slowed each step. Lost a percentage point on accuracy on tighter edits: Cursor's per-hunk control caught a regression Devin Local missed.
If Devin Local does 12 things and 1 is wrong, undoing is harder than Cursor's per-hunk acceptance. Use git branches per Devin Local run as a safety net.
Fewer Stack Overflow answers when something breaks. Worth knowing before committing the whole team.
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