Cursor is an AI Code Editor. It is built with the goal of making developers extraordinarily productive and is described as the best way to code with AI.
Key aspects and features of Cursor include:
- AI-Powered Assistance: It functions as an AI pair programmer. It uses "Frontier Intelligence" powered by a mix of purpose-built and frontier models.
- Predictive Editing: Cursor helps users "breeze through changes by predicting your next edit". This tab completion feature is highlighted by users as being highly effective, sometimes anticipating exactly what is needed and allowing coding "at the speed of thought". It can predict what code is wanted based on what the user is doing and allows acceptance by hitting tab. It can also propose multi-line edits.
- Codebase Understanding: It knows your codebase and can analyze it. This allows users to get answers from their codebase or refer to files and documentation.
- Natural Language Interaction: Users can write code using instructions and update entire classes or functions with a simple prompt. It can also write things like a README for a project by analyzing the code.
- Suggesting Edits: Cursor suggests edits to existing code, even noticing inconsistencies in markup.
- Familiar Experience: It is designed to feel familiar, allowing users to import all their extensions, themes, and keybindings in one click. It is fast and handles brackets properly, with sensible keyboard shortcuts.
- Privacy: Cursor offers Privacy Options, including a Privacy Mode where code is never stored remotely. It is also SOC 2 certified. Users can also bring their own model.
- User Perception: Many engineers describe Cursor as a significant improvement, a "necessity", the "best AI developer tool", and a "game-changer". Several users mentioned switching from VSCode to Cursor.
In essence, Cursor is described as an AI-enabled editor that deeply integrates artificial intelligence into the coding workflow. This concept is compared to how "WillBot" applies AI to marketing data and tasks, suggesting that Cursor revolutionized coding workflows by applying AI in a similar transformative way. Cursor is considered a software development tool.
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