I had a product manager in my course who worked at Amazon. He had access to the AI models but not the UI. Like a lot of other companies, Amazon policies blocked him from using ChatGPT projects or Claude projects. But they let engineers use Cline, an AI extension for Visual Studio Code. He decided to see if he could co-opt that and realized code is just words. What this means for PMs: Cursor is an IDE (integrated development environment) that treats all text files the same way. Markdown files with your PRDs, opportunity assessments, meeting notes? It processes them just like code files. In Cursor, you drag any file into the chat for context. You can use “ask mode” to have a conversation about it, or “agent mode” to let it make direct edits. Red text shows what it recommends removing, green shows what it adds. I demonstrated with “Baby Got Back” to make it family-friendly. The opening line became “Oh, my God, Becky, look at her style! It is so unique.” This was a fun demo, but the real power is when you drag in your actual PM documents. Your opportunity assessments. Your initiative notes. Your strategy docs. Cursor has the same ingredients as ChatGPT projects or Claude projects: instructions (Cursor rules), knowledge (your markdown files), and chats. But unlike those platforms, your knowledge is directly editable. The initiative doesn’t live in a chat thread. It lives in a document that keeps getting better. ➡️ If your company blocks ChatGPT but allows VS Code, download Cursor. Create markdown files for your initiatives. Drag them into chat for AI assistance. Your engineering tools just became your PM copilot.