Tool
Cursor
An AI-assisted IDE on the VS Code lineage: agents in the repo, not a chatbot beside the editor.
Cursor’s particularity is context: the agent reads the tree, the diffs, the conventions. That is useful for a senior who already knows what “good” looks like and wants speed on boilerplate, refactors and navigation — not a substitute for design.
It inherits VS Code’s ecosystem (PHP Intelephense, Twig, Docker, GitLens). The quality that matters is review: generated code still goes through PHPStan, tests and a human.
An IDE does not make a senior. Used well, it shortens the loop between intent and a patch you would have written anyway.