Cursor: The AI Coding Tool You've Probably Heard About

Cursor is an AI powered code editor. You type alongside an AI that suggests code, fixes bugs, and explains what things do. It's become one of those tools that devs either love or keep hearing about from people who won't shut up about it.

As of February, the company had over 1 million daily users and more than 50,000 businesses on its platform. Customers include Stripe, Figma, PwC, and over half of the Fortune 500.

The company is only four years old. Its core product is a fork of Microsoft's VS Code, which means it feels familiar to anyone who already codes. The difference is the AI integration. It's not a separate chatbot you paste code into. It's built into the editor itself.

Cursor's AI can generate entire functions from a comment, refactor code across multiple files, and even find bugs before you run the code. It works with most programming languages. The company says users write about 40% of their code using AI suggestions, though that number varies a lot depending on who you ask.

The company raised a large round in January at a $50 billion valuation, the CEO is 25 years old, and the team includes several researchers who previously worked on AI at places like DeepMind and OpenAI. Go Cursor.

Cursor isn't the only AI coding tool. GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and others exist. But Cursor has carved out a specific niche: devs who want the AI to feel like a pair programmer sitting next to them, not just autocomplete on steroids.