If it sounds like I’m trying to sell you on this, I’m not. There’s a lot of drawbacks. If you have not used projects, do not start with Cursor. Start with projects. This is the advanced class. Most people don’t work and do their thinking in markdown files. This is not a normal thing. I work that way, but that’s not a normal thing. Cursor doesn’t have any built-in speech to dictation the way that Claude mobile app or ChatGPT or Gemini or Microsoft do. You will need a third party app if you want to use it. And I do recommend having speech to text dictation. There’s no mobile app. There’s no chatting, having a phone call with it while you’re driving. For a lot of people that really matters. I know for me, that does. It’s way geekier. It’s harder to set up, has fewer affordances, and is harder to teach to people who aren’t fluent in Git. If you have an engineering background, it’s not as true, but there’s so many geeky things about it. When using Claude Code for regular non-technical work, the advantage is it’s really about taking large autonomous tasks, going off and coming back. But for a thinking partner, that’s not necessarily what I want. When I brainstorm with a colleague, I want them next to me, I want that interaction. ➡️ Only use Cursor if you already work in markdown, don’t need mobile access, and want a thinking partner (not an autonomous agent). Otherwise, start with Claude or ChatGPT projects first.