Cursor 3 ditched VS Code and built its own frontier model, posting suspiciously impressive benchmarks. But there's a catch that's making developers skeptical. The real question: can a closed ecosystem deliver better DX than the open alternative?
Cursor's Composer 2.5 unexpectedly outperformed Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-4.5 by 3–4x on speed with comparable quality. Head-to-head benchmarks reveal which model actually wins for real production work—and it might not be what you expect.
GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing on June 1st. Tim Corey breaks down real cost scenarios so you can predict your actual monthly spend. Essential viewing before committing to paid Copilot—pricing might surprise you.
Cursor's CEO reveals the seismic shift from hand-coded software to agent-managed development. Enterprise codebases jumped from 15% to 75% AI-generated in one year, with 30% of PRs now fully autonomous. Engineers aren't disappearing—they're evolving into agent orchestrators managing parallel AI developers.
Cursor's agentic workflow replaces manual coding tasks with autonomous planning and execution. Learn to delegate feature planning, bug fixes, code review, and testing to agents—patterns that transfer across any AI coding tool.