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An AI-powered code editor and IDE that integrates AI assistance directly into the development workflow.

Used and recommended

These creators personally use this product and recommend it to others

20VC with Harry Stebbings uses recommends
"All of our developers is using cloud code and Cursor. So, I don't think there's any company that's pushing AI efficiency more than we do."

"what you should be doing is coding with Cursor and building things yourself"

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These creators have mentioned using this product

"I use Cursor which is actually most people use it for programming and I use it for both programming and writing"
"I run my whole business from in Claude now within Cursor because I have everything plugged in and it knows everything about me"

"teach these seven founders how to download Cursor, how to get Claude Code installed"

Ethan uses
"I discovered Cursor, and scaled my mobile app to over 5 figures. Around that time, I discovered cursor which made it much easier and faster to build apps"
"How much of my spend per developer on Cursor, OpenAI and Anthropic is happening?"
Her Rule uses
"I've worked for very highly rated brands like Stripe and Figma and Cursor. I believe they are still underrated."
"that was some of my cursor research when I found"
Scott Wu uses
"We obviously use a ton of Devon internally, we use Windsurf and the agents inside Windsurf internally as well but at this point either way what whatever tools you're using."
"We also make Cursor and Cursor and tools like that widely available to engineers at Stripe"
"I have this here opened up in Cursor. You can open it up in any other text editing tool."
TBPN uses
"Not Cursor, but we're focused on, you know, keeping our heads down and executing."
"Then I use Cursor for AI coding."

"I use Cursor a lot, but I'm very specific which files to touch and don't let the AI just go rogue."

Joseph Lee uses
"We use Claude, Cursor, Codex very very extensively. So, we kind of switch between the three depending on what's the best model or most performant."
"You can start using Cursor in an afternoon and by that evening like you're 10 times more productive."
Alex Finn uses
"I still use it. I actually made a chart yesterday in my YouTube video, but basically I use OpenClaw for quick prototypes... I use Claude code for deep serious projects where like I want to handhold it."
"At this point we're all using Cursor with Opus 4.5 and we barely touch any actual programming language"
"I often bring this into Cursor and I could just be like, 'turn my script into the storyboard template.' Cursor is a bit faster if I use Cursor with Claude."
Vlad Tenev uses
"and then of course cursor and wind surf until that got acquired"
"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code, or cursor."
"All of our developers is using cloud code and Cursor. So, you know, I'm I I don't think there's any company that's pushing AI efficiency more than we do."
"I was in Cursor every single day, every single hour of the day. And I was like, how do I make this work, right?"
JD Ross uses
"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code or Cursor."
"At Alpha we also do hackathons and so our first one was using Cursor and Vercel whatever to build a video game."
"We could be in Cursor and we could come in here and create a new folder and create a bunch of page.tsx files."
"I was still using Cursor for most of my code."
"cursor is my standard IDE right just like as a consequence of that"
"My number two love of my life, cursor with Gemini model and plan mode."
How I AI uses
"I have to give kudos to Cursor. I'm still a Cursor girl. I think Cursor does a good job of building harnesses for all of these models."

"So I'm going to swap over to Cursor here. I have in this just like your classic plans folder."

"Cursor has background agents. You know everything has you you codeex you can kick off online."

"the tool stack that I use here, I've got my IDE, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code"
"Being able to use Cursor as a single way to orchestrate all the models is valuable."
"My co-founder is using Cursor and now we have like a mutual compatibility."
Kevin Rose uses
"What I would do is I would just you know use compound engineering on Cursor and do a workflow."
"I use basically half-and-half Cursor and Claude Code, because they're fundamentally different experiences and both are useful."
"I got things like Cloud Code and Cursor and Codex that I leveraged to make my coding so much more powerful, so much more impactful."
"There are two tools that I'm currently using. And it's Claude Code and Cursor."
"I use Cursor. I've I I've I I wrote my own Cursor alternative to use local looms."
"I would probably use cursor agent with, you know, GPT or Gemini or something like that for kind of an outside perspective."

Sponsored mentions

These creators mentioned this product during a paid promotion

"OpenAI, Cursor, Enthropic, Perplexity, and Verscell all have something in common. They all use WorkOS."
How I AI uses sponsored
"Cursor is my favorite way to code with AI. Whether I'm using plan mode to build out an ambitious feature, reviewing AI generated diffs right in my editor"
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Lenny's Podcast sponsored
"What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replicate, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?"
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"OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Vercel all have something in common. They all use WorkOS."

Also mentioned (75)

Casual references without a clear endorsement

Anj Midha mentioned "You could look at a cursor and say well they've built their own vertical model end to end" ▶ 9:50
This Week in Startups mentioned "Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix that can be app..." ▶ 9:57
Greg Isenberg mentioned "Cursor is the interface of work or it's the future of interface of work" ▶ 14:42
Jesse Genet mentioned "Sometimes people will react to my online content and say like you could just use Claude or Cursor..." ▶ 19:10
Jason Calacanis mentioned "Obviously, you have Anthropic, but also Perplexity Computer launched. It's awesome. I've been usi..." ▶ 29:31
TBPN mentioned "We are seeing a lot of anger from them to have their own code their own cursor write their own sh..." ▶ 2:29:46
Ras Mic mentioned "There was a difference between the quality of output that cursor generated versus cloud code vers..." ▶ 27:11
Adita Bandi mentioned "we don't need any of that. We directly sit on top of your product code" ▶ 1:27:14
How I AI mentioned "In VS Code in cursor and whatever your IDE is, loading a project at the multi-repo level is reall..." ▶ 10:00
20VC with Harry Stebbings mentioned "then cursor is selling it again and recognizing the revenue right" ▶ 31:17
Invest Like The Best mentioned "OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Verscell all have something in common. They all use wo..." ▶ 20:02
Chamath Palihapitiya mentioned "Anthropic is used either directly or through things like GitHub and cursor." ▶ 11:22
Jason Lemkin mentioned "barely anyone's using cursor today in in my own portfolio and people said it on Twitter too, like..." ▶ 3:30
Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast mentioned "You can definitely vibe code this. You can go through something like Cursor or something like that." ▶ 21:43
Bucky Moore mentioned "I expect that the dynamic we're seeing right now between Cursor and the labs is what we'll see fo..." ▶ 1:41:20
Mukund Jha mentioned "Our coding agent is so powerful that we basically internally use it as a replacement for Cursor a..." ▶ 13:19
Daniel Roth mentioned "I started with cursor and then over time I stopped using cursor because I didn't really care wher..." ▶ 6:21
Thomas Mahony mentioned "When I built this, this was before AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code existed. A lot of ..." ▶ 2:49
Lenny's Podcast mentioned "I launched you get a free year of cursor and lovable and bolt and replet and vzero." ▶ 0:08
Olivia Moore mentioned "All of these desktop products like cursor, cloud code, granola, whisper flow that people are using." ▶ 1:17:15
Mark Jeffrey mentioned "It competes with Claude and Cursor... while Cursor had to raise against a $29 billion valuation t..." ▶ 7:28
Cal Newport mentioned "I used Cursor quite a bit last year, but have moved on to working directly into terminal with Cod..." ▶ 21:15
Michael Greenwich mentioned "or even Cursor last year which you know like kind of came out from nowhere and took over how peop..." ▶ 2:36:17
Cody Schneider mentioned "cloud code on you know in your terminal or like cursor" ▶ 51:52
Starter Story mentioned "there's a ton of developer tools out there that are making millions of dollars. Cursor, Claude Bo..." ▶ 2:36
Y Combinator mentioned "I think what will happen is coding will be generally solved for everyone." ▶ 0:01
Kieran Klaassen mentioned "let's not use the work command but just put the plan it made that you reviewed in Cursor if that'..." ▶ 10:48
Every mentioned "this is so much better than being in Cursor when surf or whatever" ▶ 16:09
Live Vibe Check mentioned "Copilot has added Kro and I think Cursor also. There's a Cursor plugin as well by Eric. So we mer..." ▶ 7:24
Alex Mathew mentioned "Cursor is doing really well" ▶ 22:48
Rory O'Driscoll mentioned "You look at Cursor, it's doing a billion dollars in revenue, but it's pretty much the same billio..." ▶ 6:07
Lex Fridman mentioned "like a hobby, just as cursor or perplexity" ▶ 14:16
David George mentioned "he just took two engineers that are very deep in AI and assigned them to build it from scratch wi..." ▶ 8:46
Nick Shirley mentioned "I didn't use Cursor code didn't exist or some other fancy AI tools." ▶ 4:52
Founders Podcast mentioned "So whether you're a fast growing startup like Cursor or an enterprise company like Snowflake, Van..." ▶ 40:52
Reed Robinson mentioned "You can create these collections of tools from all the apps you use and give them access to Claud..." ▶ 0:13
Ross Mike mentioned "don't use the generic plan mode that Cursor or Claude Code has." ▶ 14:31
My First Million mentioned "Cursor basically said they didn't make the model. They were like, 'Let's take Claude, but we'll j..." ▶ 56:43
Ryan Carson mentioned "Most of us who have used agents like AMP or Claude Code or Cursor" ▶ 9:54

Criticisms (4)

"we had to say, guys, you got to deprecate cursor because you're just wrapping cloud code and charging us way too much for these tokens"
Jerry Murdock criticizes
"Cursor is obsolete. That's where the product is today."
Cursor Is Obsolete · Feb 2026
Jerry Murdock criticizes
"Most of the companies their view as they've told me is Cursor is obsolete. That's where the product is today."
Chris Hawkes criticizes
"Cursor raising their prices so much, which is why I don't even use Cursor anymore"