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What Is Cursor: The AI Coding Tool That Lives in Your Editor
Three everyday actions — Tab completion, the Agent panel, and Plan Mode — explain what Cursor is, how it differs from a chatbot and from a terminal agent, which platforms it supports, what its billing model looks like, and the three kinds of people who should not start with Cursor.
What Is Trae: ByteDance's AI IDE, and the Open-Source Agent That Shares Its Name
Sorting out the three easily confused things called Trae: ByteDance's AI IDE (IDE mode and SOLO mode), the office assistant TraeWork, and the open-source trae-agent command-line framework on GitHub. With platform support, the billing model, and advice on picking between them.
Installing Cursor: From Download to Your First AI-Assisted Edit
Follow this guide and you'll end up with a working Cursor on your machine: signed in to an account, a real project open, having watched it change a line of code with a diff you see yourself, and the command-line Cursor CLI installed. Every step spells out what you should see and what failure looks like.
Installing Trae: Running Both IDE Mode and SOLO Mode Once
ByteDance's AI IDE Trae (TraeCode), from downloading, initial setup, sign-in, and opening a project, to running one task each in IDE Mode and SOLO Mode and setting the permission mode. Every step spells out what you should see on screen, plus the real errors and fixes listed in the official docs.