Cursor

Cursor is a fork of VS Code rebuilt around AI as a first-class citizen rather than an autocomplete plugin. It indexes your whole repository so the model understands your conventions, types and architecture, then offers inline edits, multi-file refactors, agentic task execution and a chat panel that can actually read the files it is talking about. The tab-completion model predicts multi-line edits and cursor position, which in practice feels like the editor finishing your thought. Composer and agent modes take a plain-English task, plan the changes across files, run the terminal commands and iterate on failing tests until the work is done. Because it is VS Code underneath, every extension, keybinding and theme you already use continues to work, which removes the usual friction of adopting a new editor. Engineering teams adopt Cursor for large migrations, test generation, unfamiliar-codebase onboarding and the long tail of tedious refactors nobody wants to do by hand. Pricing includes a free hobby tier, a Pro plan with generous fast requests, and business plans with privacy mode, SSO and centralised billing. For professional developers, it is the most direct productivity upgrade available today.