Cursor Learn (cursor.com)

Cursor Learn is a new course from Cursor aimed at software developers who want to use AI models and tools to write code more effectively—not to learn machine learning or train models, but to master the practical patterns of “AI-assisted programming.” The course builds developers’ mental models of how different kinds of models behave, their limitations, and the tradeoffs (time, cost, reliability, effort) involved in choosing tooling—an analogy likening transportation choices (walk, bike, drive) to development approaches. It focuses on real workflows like intelligent autocompletion, generating files from context, iterative prompting and debugging, and integrating AI into your IDE, with Cursor examples that generalize to other models and products. This matters because adopting AI is reshaping developer workflows: it can boost velocity but also introduces new failure modes and verification burdens. Cursor Learn emphasizes how to prompt effectively, when to trust generated code, how to diagnose and fix nonfunctional outputs, and how to weigh cost vs. productivity—skills that reduce frustrating loops of “AI writes code that doesn’t work.” For teams and individual devs, the course offers concrete patterns for embedding AI safely into development pipelines, informs tooling choices, and helps engineers get measurable benefits from AI without overreliance or wasted spend.