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by Anysphere
Who uses, recommends or left Cursor, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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Cursor - My preferred editor. Find my settings here: kcd.im/vscode
His living /uses page listing the services, libraries and apps he works with; the page carries a blanket affiliate disclosure. Date is the last commit to the page source in kentcdodds/kentcdodds.com.
2026-03-10·kentcdodds.com ↗
My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
'Why I Stopped Using nbdev' — on how AI coding tools changed which development tools he picks.
2026-01-18·hamel.dev ↗
It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI-based auto completion and code generation built-in. It’s my go-to for programming with AI assistance at the moment.
Post describing the AI tools he uses day to day as a techy consumer. The list entry this describes is Cursor.
2025-01-30·lucumr.pocoo.org ↗
I use the Cursor IDE regularly, and especially for the braindead stuff, I’m mostly hitting tab to autocomplete.
Arguing that inline autocomplete should be a primitive in every web app, using his own editor habits as the example.
2024-12-03·sunilpai.dev ↗
Cursor… it’s tab completion model is industry leading, if you still write code yourself. I use VS Code mostly, I do like them pushing things like browser automation and plan mode tho.
Rating the editors and harnesses he keeps around.
2025-10-14·steipete.me ↗
Cursor/GPT-5 takes FOREVER and doesn’t share its thinking, so it’s hard to steer.
Comparing other coding CLIs and models against his Claude Code setup.
2025-08-25·steipete.me ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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