Cursor removed web file editing to force users to delegate to agents
Jonas Nelle · Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor · Mar 6, 2026 · at 34:56
Jonas Nelle discusses product design decisions behind Cursor Web, specifically why Cursor unshipped a built-in file editor.
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“And we actually felt that, that in some ways by restricting and limiting what you could do there, people would naturally leave more to the agent. And fall into this new pattern of delegating, which we thought was really valuable. And so there's currently no way in cursor web to edit these files.”
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