Cursor IDE Review: What Makes It a Genuinely Different AI Code Editor

I switched my primary editor to Cursor in January of 2026 after spending three years on VS Code with GitHub Copilot. The reason was not the chatbot sidebar — every editor has one of those now — but the tab completion model that felt qualitatively different the first time I used it. After six months of daily use across TypeScript, Python, and Go projects, I have a clear picture of what Cursor actually changes about the coding experience and where the marketing outpaces the product. The...