Cursor dropped their new product yesterday and its not a code editor anymore. its an agent orchestration console that happens to have an editor you can switch to. The default view is now a dashboard where you manage multiple agents running in parallel. the file tree is gone, replaced by a prompt input. you dispatch tasks to agents, review their output, decide what ships. the actual code editing is a secondary view you pull up when needed. This is the same pattern we saw with cloud infrastructure. nobody manages servers by sshing into each one anymore. you use a control plane. cursor is betting that coding is going the same direction. engineers become agent supervisors, not code writers. Whats interesting is everyone agrees agents need their own interface but nobody agrees where it should live. anthropic says terminal (claude code). openai says everywhere at once (codex desktop + cli + vscode + web). google paid windsurf $2.4B in licensing fees and built antigravity with editor and agent views side by side. cursor went furthest and made the agent console the default, editor is secondary. This matters for vscode. cursor forked from it and inherited the extension ecosystem. but if the main interface isnt a code editor anymore, those extensions lose value. microsoft should be watching this closely. Cursor also shipped composer 2, their own model built on moonshot kimi k2.5. claims it beats opus 4.6 on their internal benchmark at lower cost per token. cheaper default model matters when youre running parallel agents all day. The cloud handoff is nice too. push a running task to cursor cloud when you close your laptop, pull it back later. verdent has had async cloud tasks but the mid-session handoff is new. My question is whether this is actually better or just different work. managing 10 agents and reviewing their diffs isnt less effort, its different effort. you trade writing code for reviewing code. Still feels like were watching the ide get disrupted in real time. havent seen this kind of shift since vscode killed sublime. submitted by /u/RevealNoo
Originally posted by u/RevealNoo on r/ArtificialInteligence