… But as it finds itself racing to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI in the agentic coding race, that scrappiness may not be enough. This battle—the one to create the best AI coding agent—may be Cursor’s most capital-intensive chapter yet. …
… Even for tasks that don’t involve coding, AI labs have found that a coding agent’s ability to use other applications, modify files, and create bespoke software can make them more helpful to users. …
… But as Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code offered new agentic coding experiences, GitHub Copilot was starting to feel stuck in an earlier era of AI. OpenAI coming out with yet another coding product wouldn’t help. …
… Managed Agents will give developers an agent harness, which describes all of the software infrastructure that wraps around an AI model to help it work agentically, or take actions on behalf of a user. …