Cursor has no plans to slow down, even with the $60 billion acquisition of SpaceX.
The company on Monday announced a new mobile app for iOS devices designed for users who want to give instructions to coding agents directly from their phones. This app is related to the Cursor 2.0 changes announced in October, which moved the service to independent coding agencies. The mobile app allows users to launch new coding agents and interact with agents started from the desktop client.
Cursor’s move to mobile follows similar apps from Anthropic and OpenAI, both of which offer ways to interact with coding tools on mobile.
This is part of a broader shift in AI-based coding tools, moving away from written code and toward monitoring the code-writing agent. Without the need to access large code bases, many developers are moving away from multi-monitor desktop setups in favor of telephones that allow them to continuously talk to remote agents.
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, said in a recent talk that the company has switched almost entirely to mobile AI coding as a result. “Right now, most of my coding is done on my phone,” Charney said in his talk. “If you had told me that six months ago, I would have said, ‘You’re crazy,’ but this is what it is now.”
