Cursor
The code editor that builds with you, not just for you.
Michael dropped out of MIT to build the code editor he wished existed. The core idea: instead of AI being a sidebar plugin in your IDE, design everything AI-first — every shortcut, every interaction, every edit built around working with a model that knows your entire codebase. Cursor launched in 2023 and became one of the fastest-growing developer tools in history.
I used to spend two hours debugging. Now I spend twenty minutes. The rest goes to actually building things.
Editor's Take: Cursor is the first AI coding tool where the experience doesn't feel like asking a chatbot for help. It understands your whole codebase, rewrites multiple files simultaneously while you watch, catches bugs before you run anything, and explains its own changes. We talked to dozens of developers who switched. None went back. If you write code for a living and you haven't tried Cursor, this is your sign.
