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Cursor leaving VS Code and shipping its own frontier model

April 6, 2026Fireship

Fireship frames Cursor 3’s move away from VS Code as a tradeoff between tighter vertical integration and ecosystem compatibility, with model choice and editor lock-in becoming part of the developer workflow decision.

Cursor ditches VS Code, but not everyone is happy....
Cursor 3 just introduced its own frontier model
there's a catch...
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