Comment by michaelbuckbee

Cursor's major innovation is in the UX of integrating AI-assisted tooling into your editor.

- Inline chat about code blocks

- Inline instructions on modifying/creating code

- Import of documentation to the local project for better suggestions and referencing

You highlight the code you're interested in and hit CMD+K to have it do modifications for you.

This kills the copy + paste of code from your editor to ChatGPT and back, which beyond being a pain also loses all the context of where the code is in your project and is also a step ahead of Co-Pilot which is more just super intelligent code completion.

In general, I've found a great deal of dev productivity improvements in using it as a coding assistant where I'm still orchestrating and guiding the work and using the AI assistance to very rapidly blow through boilerplate tasks, reformatting things, double checking if I'm doing something right, etc.