AI Masters vs Everyone Else

I closed Cursor after ten minutes. It was September. Everyone was talking about AI agents and context windows and something called "agent mode" that supposedly changed everything. I downloaded Cursor, opened it, watched it index my codebase ... and felt my chest tighten. The interface was wrong. The shortcuts were wrong. Everything I'd spent fifteen years optimizing was suddenly foreign. I went back to VS Code that afternoon. Told myself I'd try again later. Kept maxing out my GitHub Copilot cre