Here's my left-field pitch since everyone's shopping the A.IDEs - don't use them.

The polish of Cursor et al is a component of its dishonesty. You should keep the nature of the tool exposed to you at all times.

I say you should:

- identify the things about your personal development process that you'd like to streamline (up to and including not having to code everything by hand)

- write Python scripts that call LLMs (or don't!) to achieve the thing you want.

- heck, write library functions and establish some neat patterns - a random prompt picker using a folder of txt files, why not?

Not only can you create a development experience that approximates much of what Cursor does, you can make one that is twice as good for you because it is aligned with how you work, and how you think.

And at that point, with your fluent new workflow, making a simple VSCode extension to hook into your scripts can't be all that hard. At that point, how can Cursor compete?