Cursor ditches VS Code, but not everyone is happy...
Two years ago, Cursor 1.0 was released as a VS Code fork for AI code autocompletion. Six months ago, Cursor 2.0 introduced an upgraded chat view capable of controlling the terminal to build entire features. Just recently, Cursor released version 3.0, which shifts focus from writing code to managing AI agents across multiple repositories, machines, and the cloud simultaneously, akin to an air traffic controller. Additionally, Cursor unveiled its new Composer 2 model, an in-house trained model that is claimed to be more intelligent than Claude Opus 4.6, based on internal benchmarks.
A significant change in Cursor 3.0 is that it is no longer a VS Code fork, having been completely rewritten from scratch in Rust, which is beneficial for RAM usage. However, this new direction has sparked debate among users.
