What the Team Behind Cursor Knows About the Future of Code
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What the Team Behind Cursor Knows About the Future of Code
| By Katie Parrott | January 22, 2026 | Source Code |
Based on Every’s Cursor Camp with Cursor developer education lead Lee Robinson.
Key takeaways:
- The death of the IDE: IDEs are being replaced by AI-native editors; the code editor is just a thin layer now
- A browser built from scratch by AI (for $80,000): Cursor’s team rebuilt a Next.js app browser from scratch using AI — took weeks and ~$80k in compute
- How a Cursor coder uses Cursor: Planning comes first; model selection is vibes-based (no systematic approach); review is baked into every session
- Retrieval over compression: Better to retrieve full context when needed than to compress context aggressively
- Q&A highlights: Questions to ask before switching to Cursor from other tools
Note: Article is based on a sponsored event — Cursor provided $100 in credits to attendees.