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How Cursor works, feature by feature

Rebuild the sequence in "How Cursor works, feature by feature" from memory, ending with the check that proves the outcome.

Step 1 of 2

The Cursor PM role has no process layer to hide behind. Within the first few minutes, the interviewer is checking one thing: do you actually live in this product or did you read the marketing page last night?

Cursor is an AI-native editor built as a fork of VS Code. The product splits into the three things a developer does all day - completing code, changing code and asking about code - plus a context-and-config layer that decides whether any of it is trustworthy. Know each surface by the job it does, not by its name.

THE CURSOR STACK

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: stack

Top surfaces are what developers touch; everything below decides whether the output is any good.