Cursor started as a better code editor with AI built in. That framing is now obsolete. With Cursor 3.0, released April 2, 2026, the product introduced an Agents Window for running many agents simultaneously across local environments, git worktrees, cloud VMs, and remote SSH connections. The shift is from autocomplete-and-one-chat to something closer to agent…
When OpenAI launched Codex as a cloud-based software engineering agent in May 2025, the pitch was parallel task delegation: assign work to an agent, get a pull request back. The picture has expanded since. OpenAI Developers now describes Codex as one agent for everywhere you code—app, CLI, IDE, cloud, and browser. For developers and small…
When GitHub launched what it now calls Copilot cloud agent in May 2025, the pitch was direct: assign a GitHub issue to Copilot and get a pull request back. That workflow—issue assignment to branch to draft PR—has moved from preview to general availability, and the product has been renamed from Copilot coding agent to Copilot…