Comment by andrewstuart

UX. Cursor is fundamentally no different from going to ChatGPT and asking it to write some code, but the Cursor UX is very nice. Shows you colored diffs of what it wants to change with accept/reject, chat window to flesh out ideas, etc. They get all the small UX details right (assuming you like a VS Code style experience).

Is cursor all that different from Microsoft Copilot vscode Extension?

You describe in plain English what you want and it writes the software. If you are a programmer then you may not be satisfied with what is written. If you aren’t a programmer then you will probably feel empowered, provided you can coax it to write something that works.