There used to be a meme: "The cursor of {TASK} is cursor." Its meaning is that for many tasks, a file system connected to a chatbot that can view and edit files is the ideal setup.

Before Cursor, people used to code with LLMs by copying and pasting their code into and out of ChatGPT.

Cursor, with its ability to search directly across the codebase, was much more convenient.

But what made it feel like magic is that it builds *semantic embeddings* of your entire codebase behind the scenes. When you ask it something, it can pull up relevant snippets *by meaning*, without doing a keyword-based search (something like grep).

When Cursor took off, everyone started pitching "the Cursor for X."

But that inspired a counter-meme: "The Cursor for {TASK} is Cursor."

There is no point in building "the cursor of blogging", or "the cursor of novel drafting", or "the cursor of data science", or "the cursor of game dev", or "the cursor of research".

The combination of a text editor, an AI chat sidebar, and a semantic embedding over the entire project is the ultimate universal tool. Just use Cursor.