I built a simple Cursor alternative after Void slowed down

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Hi HN — I’m Tajudeen, a software engineer working mostly on large and regulated codebases.I built CortexIDE as a simple alternative to Cursor, mainly because the open-source editor Void (which CortexIDE is based on) slowed down, and I still wanted a local-first, hackable AI editor I could control.CortexIDE is a VS Code–based editor, not an extension. The workflow is intentionally explicit: chat with the model, generate a concrete plan, produce diffs, and apply changes only after review.It supports chat, inline edit, and agent-style multi-file edits, repo-aware context via indexing, local models (e.g. Ollama) as well as remote providers, PDF uploads for specs/docs, image uploads for visual co

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Website: voideditor.com