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So, what is Cursor or Cursor AI, as it's also sometimes called?

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Well, it's an IDE, a code editor with deep AI integration.

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So unlike Visual Studio Code, where you can install the GitHub Copilot extension as a

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plugin, Cursor is an IDE that was built to embrace AI in every part of it, you could

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say.

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In the end, it offers similar features like GitHub Copilot did.

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It gives you smart code completion, code generation, code aware chat, but as you will see, it adds

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some extra features here and there and makes all these features a bit more efficient than

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GitHub Copilot, though it's of course also important to understand that GitHub Copilot

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is also under active development, so it will only get more powerful in the future and ultimately

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both might be equal in functionality or power.

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It's also worth noting that the Cursor IDE is technically not an editor that has been

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built from the ground up by the Cursor team, instead it's a so-called fork, a copy, you

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could say, of VS Code, which is an open source code editor, which is why you can copy it.

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And it's a copy where the Cursor team then built certain AI features into the editor

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so that these features are a bit more integrated than they were if they were added just through

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a plugin.

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But in the end, it's the same foundation, the same base code editor, which also means

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that if you install Cursor, it very much looks and feels and works like VS Code because in

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the end, it's the same editor with extra features added to it.

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Now to get started with Cursor, you can head over to cursor.com and there, as you can see,

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you can download it for free, though I will say right away that if you actually want to

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use these AI features, you will very likely have to pay for it.

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But I'll get back to that soon.

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Now you can get an overview of the most important AI features that are offered by Cursor right

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here on the starting page or if you click on features, but I'll actually jump to the pricing

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page instead because we'll explore those important features throughout the next lectures.

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And here on the pricing page, you can learn that right now when I'm recording this, and

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of course, you should take a look at this page when you're viewing this video.

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But right now there is a free plan which you can use so that you can use Cursor for free.

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But there are pretty harsh restrictions here regarding how many AI requests you can send

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and you do send an AI request whenever you use Cursor's autocompletion or its chat and

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so on.

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So that's pretty restrictive here.

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Now you therefore very likely will need to upgrade to the pro plan at a certain point

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in time and I'm using the pro plan for this course so that I don't have these restrictions.

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You will have to upgrade to that very likely if you really want to use Cursor without all

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these limitations you have over here.

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You still have some limitations here with that pro plan, though those also likely will

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change over time.

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But in my experience, it's a pretty great plan to use Cursor as a main IDE and these

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restrictions haven't been too problematic for me here.

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Though of course, if you want pretty much no restrictions at all, maybe VS Code and

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GitHub Copilot is the way to go.

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Anyways, here for this course I'm using pro, you can also follow along without it,

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but you will then probably hit some limits at certain points and you'll get a warning

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in the editor that you need to upgrade if you want to continue using these AI features.

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So what you can then do is download the IDE, it's available for all operating systems,

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just like VS Code, and you also might want to sign up and create such a plan and sign

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up for such a plan if you want to use all the features.