Discussion - Topic: Cursor

This week's topic: Cursor

As described in Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. #32.

We continue to be impressed by the AI-first code editor Cursor, which remains a leader in the competitive AI coding assistance space. Its code context orchestration is very effective, and it supports a wide range of models, including the option to use a custom API key. The Cursor team often comes up with innovative user experience features before the other vendors, and they include an extensive list of context providers in their chat, such as the referencing of git diffs, previous AI conversations, web search, library documentation and MCP integration. Alongside tools like Cline and Windsurf, Cursor also stands out for its strong agentic coding mode. This mode allows developers to guide their implementation directly from an AI chat interface, with the tool autonomously reading and modifying files, as well as executing commands. Additionally, we appreciate Cursor’s ability to detect linting and compilation errors in generated code and proactively correct them.

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