The arms race for AI-assisted programming tools is ongoing, and the most eye-catching one is Cursor. Cursor is an AI-first code editor designed to enhance developer productivity by deeply integrating AI into the coding workflow. We've paid attention to it in previous Radar assessments, but it's clear that the recent continuous improvement of Cursor has ushered in a qualitative change. In our use, Cursor has demonstrated strong contextual reasoning capabilities based on the existing codebase. While other AI code tools like GitHub Copilot tend to generate and collaborate around code snippets, Cursor's multi-line and multi-file editing operations make it stand out. Cursor is forked from VSCode and developed based on it, providing a fast and intuitive interaction method that conforms to the developer's intuition. Powerful operations can be completed with ctrl/cmd+K and ctrl/cmd+L. Cursor is leading a new round of competition in AI programming tools, especially regarding developer interaction and understanding of codebases.
