Cursor 3 announced with AI coding agents to automate developer tasks, what will humans do?

Cursor 3 introduces AI agents that can take over coding tasks just from simple text instructions, changing how developers work day to day. As tools from OpenAI and Anthropic gain traction, the race to build smarter coding assistants is getting intense.

The way developers write code has been going through quiet changes for a while, but the latest announcement from Cursor makes it hard to ignore what is coming next. What used to be a simple "AI helping you code" story is now turning into something else entirely - AI doing the work on your behalf.

Cursor has introduced Cursor 3, a new interface that lets users assign coding work to AI agents instead of doing it themselves. The product, which was earlier being developed under the name "Glass," allows developers to describe what they want in plain English, and the system handles the rest.

At the centre of this experience is a chat-like box. You type a task, hit enter, and the AI agent starts working. There is no need to open files, write functions, or debug line by line, at least not at the starting point.

"In the last few months, our profession has completely changed," Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor's heads of engineering, told WIRED. "A lot of the product that got Cursor here is not as important going forward anymore." This is a bold admission, and it tells you how quickly things are moving.

Cursor isn’t alone in trying this approach. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are already offering similar tools like Codex and Claude Code that let developers hand over entire chunks of work to AI.

These tools have caught on fast. Many developers have started spending more time with them, especially because of how aggressively they are priced. Some subscriptions reportedly offer usage worth over $1,000 for a monthly fee of around $200, making them hard to ignore. That has likely created pressure on Cursor. Some developers who once relied on it are now trying other platforms, mainly because they feel they are getting more value for money elsewhere.