Stage 1 · Lesson 6 of 6
What Cursor is
is an AI code editor from , built on VS Code, so your extensions, settings and keyboard habits mostly carry over. It gives you every level of help in one place: Tab as you type, on a selection with Cmd+K or Ctrl+K, and an Agent in the side panel that edits files and runs commands, with Plan and Ask modes for thinking before changing anything.
There is also a for the terminal. A free Hobby plan exists alongside paid plans, with limits that change, so check the pricing page. The skill is choosing the lightest tool that fits: Tab for a small edit, inline edit for one function, Agent for a multi-file change.
Common trapopening Agent for every change, including one-line fixes you would type faster and understand better yourself.
A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 2 cheat sheet entries come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
Resources for this stage
Start with
- VideoFreeDeep Dive into Large Language Models like ChatGPT
Andrej Karpathy · Intermediate
A clear, free explanation of how language models are trained and why they hallucinate; watch the first hour