I used Copilot and dropped it when it stopped being free. But Cursor is a different beast - the autocomplete is far better and intuitive. The chat functions like a personal StackOverflow (or just paste an error message for debugging).
For me as a senior eng, Cursor is where AI turned the corner from "maybe helpful for fringe / basic things" to "actually amplifies my productivity". Took about 30 min to flip the switch for me, so I suggest you give it a try.
The trouble is that I heard all of this—personal stack overflow, error messages—already with Claude, and I'm skeptical that anything Cursor can do on top of that will be worth losing the productivity of the JetBrains IDEs.
I imagine it's easier to switch for someone who's already making do with VS Code, because at that point the main hurdle is just being willing to pay for an editor. I already pay for an editor (a bundle of them), but "VS Code with better AI integration" just... doesn't appeal, especially when the word-of-mouth recommendations say all the same things that I've already heard about other tools that didn't work for me.
For me as a senior eng, Cursor is where AI turned the corner from "maybe helpful for fringe / basic things" to "actually amplifies my productivity". Took about 30 min to flip the switch for me, so I suggest you give it a try.