Cursor

Cursor is a VS Code-based editor with AI chat, autocomplete and codebase-wide edits built in — great for vibe coding.

Cursor is for developers who want the assistant inside the editor with the whole project in view. It is strongest on changes that are mechanical but spread across many files — renaming, migrating an API, adding the same handling in twenty places — where a chat window without repository context would miss half the call sites.

It will confidently edit past the boundary of what you asked, so the diff needs reading line by line rather than trusting the summary. Switching from an existing editor setup has a cost, and heavy daily use pushes you onto a paid plan.

If you only want inline completion inside the editor you already use, GitHub Copilot is the lighter change. For explaining an unfamiliar codebase rather than editing it, a long-context chat assistant such as Claude often does better.