Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature that lets people design the look and feel of web applications with AI. The tool, Visual Editor, is essentially a vibe-coding product for designers, giving them access to the same fine-grained controls they'd expect from professional design software. But in addition to making changes manually, the tool lets them request edits from Cursor's AI agent using natural language. Cursor is best known for its AI coding platform, but with Visual Editor, the startup wants to capture other parts of the software creation process.