The AI-native IDE every senior engineer is switching to.
Cursor pairs a fork of VS Code with frontier agents (Composer, Background Agents). The benchmark dev experience.
Best for
Recommended workflow
Step 1
Open repo
Step 2
Plan in Composer
Step 3
Ship via agent
Step 4
Review PR
Anthropic
Terminal-native agent — refactors and ships entire features.
GitHub
The original — now with agents, code review, and Workspaces.
StackBlitz
In-browser full-stack code agent — runs Node in WebContainers.
Replit
Builds + deploys full apps from natural language, in Replit.
Cognition
The first 'AI software engineer' — fully autonomous, ticket to PR.