Cursor 3 Turned My IDE Into a Management Dashboard. I'm Not Sure I Asked for That.

Cursor 3 was shipped on April 2nd. The default interface is no longer an editor. It is a sidebar with agents. This Is Not a Feature Update It's a manifesto on what we think developers are ready to do next. The new Agents Window allows you to spin up multiple AI agents in parallel — local, cloud, cross-repo — and manage them all in one place. Start a task on your laptop, send it to the cloud, go home, and pull it back in when you're ready to review. The editor is still there, behind a toggle. Like a legacy mode you keep around for sentimental reasons. Every Tool Is Racing to the Same Place Windsurf describes itself as an "agentic IDE." Claude Code does not run on anything but your terminal. It requires a 1M token context window. GitHub Copilot has long shipped agent mode across VS Code. Technology in the genre is converging pretty fast to this target destination. The target is: you stop writing code and start managing stuff that writes code. Here's Where It Gets Uncomfortable I have bee