Is "Cursor 3" == Glass? I get they feel like their identity means they need to constantly be pushing the envelope in terms of agent UX. But they could stand to have like an "experimental" track and a "This is VS Code but with better AI integration" track.
These AI companies are running out of ideas, and are desperate. I can't imagine investing in companies that are 3 month behind open source alternatives, and their target audience being the most experimental kind there is.
Looks pretty though.
But are they affordable already for developers who don't earn a Silicon Valley salary? Developers in 3rd world countries?
Your workflow is probably closer to what most SWEs are actually doing.
The only way you're going to let an agent go off on its own to one-shot a patch is if your quality bar is merely "the code works."
Agents today can generate solid code even for relatively complex requirements. However, they don't always make the right trade-offs.
Just because something works doesn't mean it scales. It doesn't mean it can handle unexpected user input. It doesn't mean it's easily extensible.
Today engineers really just need to define those high-level technical requirements.
At least within our company, this is quickly becoming what it means to be a software engineer.
At least before they were tangentially still an actual developer tool, standard vsc windows, the code was the point etc.
Now they offer really nothing interesting for professionals.
That's a curious statement given that what they're doing is just becoming more like Claude Code, which seems extremely popular on this forum.