--- title: Cursor Is Great: Why It Has Become My Go-To AI Code Editor description: Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, has become a go-to tool for developers due to its ability to understand entire codebases rather than... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-is-great-why-it-has-become-my-go-to-ai-code-editor-dlgl0pgya twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cursor Is Great: Why It Has Become My Go-To AI Code Editor | daily.dev og:description: Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, has become a go-to tool for developers due to its ability to understand entire codebases rather than... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-is-great-why-it-has-become-my-go-to-ai-code-editor-dlgl0pgya og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DLGl0PgYa.png og:image:alt: Cursor Is Great: Why It Has Become My Go-To AI Code Editor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cursor Is Great: Why It Has Become My Go-To AI Code Editor **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cursor, an AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, has become a go-to tool for developers due to its ability to understand entire codebases rather than isolated snippets. Key strengths include multi-file editing, natural language feature generation, large-scale refactoring, style-consistent code generation, faster debugging, test generation, and documentation creation. The post covers practical use cases across Flutter, backend, and web projects, while noting limitations like potential misunderstandings of ambiguous prompts and the need to manually verify security-sensitive code. Tips for effective use include writing specific prompts, breaking tasks into steps, and reviewing all generated code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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