Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex by Maxwell Zeff

While Cursor’s core product lets developers code in an integrated development environment (IDE) and tap an AI model for help, new products like Claude Code and Codex center around allowing developers to off-load entire tasks to an AI agent—sometimes spinning up multiple agents at the same time. Cursor 3 is the startup’s version of an “agent-first” coding product. According to Nelle, the product is optimized for a world where developers spend their days “conversing with different agents, checking in on them, and seeing the work that they did,” rather than writing code themselves.

I used Cursor exclusively when this whole revolution started. But it was coding only, I could not use it for general stuff. And I wanted that too, hence I loved to Claude.

But their business model is entirely dependent on the agents, and so are at a risk from price changes from them.

I don’t get their business model.