How Cursor works, feature by feature

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. A context-and-config layer sits underneath and decides whether any of it is trustworthy. Know each surface by the job it does.