Last week, the AI code editor with the fastest revenue growth in the category shipped a product that is not a code editor.
Cursor 3, built from scratch under the codename Glass, makes an agent management console the primary interface and pushes the traditional IDE to a secondary surface. Engineers can still write code in it. But the product’s design assumes they will spend most of their time dispatching agents, reviewing output, and deciding which ships. The prompt box sits where the file tree used to be.
For a few months now,…
