Cursor AI is an AI-powered code editor built on top of Visual Studio Code, designed to enhance developer productivity by integrating advanced artificial intelligence features directly into the coding environment. It helps developers work faster and smarter by understanding the codebase context, suggesting improvements, generating code, fixing errors, and allowing natural language commands to write or refactor code. Key features of Cursor AI include:
- AI code completion that writes entire functions and suggests smart improvements.
- Error detection and automatic correction.
- The ability to process natural language commands, e.g., asking the AI to create or update code by describing desired changes in plain English.
- Codebase-aware chat allowing querying of the entire project for explanations, dependencies, or tests.
- Refactoring and bulk code modifications with smart rewrite capabilities.
- Integration with existing VS Code extensions and workflows.
- Privacy mode that assures code is never stored remotely.
- Multi-model AI support including GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, and Claude.
Cursor AI is developed by Anysphere Inc, and is widely used across various industries and by developers for improving coding speed, code understanding, maintenance, and overall software development workflow. It supports multiple programming languages including JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and more. It is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. There is a free plan with basic features and a Pro plan for advanced capabilities costing around $20/month per developer. Cursor AI is considered a modern AI-native code editor that acts like a coding partner or co-pilot, raising productivity and quality in software development.
