Meet the new Cursor · Cursor

Cursor 3 is a unified workspace for building software with agents.

Cursor
So it has converged to the same UI/UX as the Claude/Codex desktop apps. If that's the case, why use Cursor over those more canonical apps?
Model independence
That gap was closed by opencode months ago.
different products - CLI vs apps
Not really, no. Coding CLIs are hugely popular with the "App user" crowd, see Claude Code.

I think that's more fashion than anything.

Every company I've worked at has still had a few engineers who insist on working exclusively in the CLI with vim/emacs prior to AI. Every other engineer used some flavor of a desktop app ranging from more minimal editors to incredibly complex IDEs. I expect we land back on UIs long term.