Cursor vs Microsoft Copilot: Which Is Better in 2026
Last Tuesday, I spent forty-five minutes trying to refactor a legacy authentication module. I had files open across three different directories, a terminal running my test suite, and an AI coding assistant that kept suggesting imports for a library we deprecated six months ago. That’s the real test for these tools—not how well they write a Fibonacci function from scratch, but how much they actually help when you’re deep in the weeds of an e