Alright, let's get into it. I've been using Cursor professionally for the last three months, after switching from VS Code + Copilot. My main use case is building and troubleshooting Marketo landing pages and email templates, plus some light scripting for CRM data hygiene.
The $20/month question comes down to one thing: how much you value its "agentic" features versus just good autocomplete. For me, the chat-driven file and project-wide edits have been a genuine time-saver. Last week, I needed to refactor a batch of landing page HTML to swap out old header classes for a new design system. Telling Cursor "Apply this CSS class change to all HTML files in the /landing-pages directory" and having it do it correctly across 12 files? That alone saved me an hour of grunt work.
But here's the real talk—it's not magic. You still need to review the changes. I've caught it trying to be a bit too clever with my Marketo syntax a couple times. The project-level awareness is fantastic for connecting the dots between my analytics snippets and the actual page code, which is where it feels superior to just having a chat window with a regular AI assistant.
On email deliverability, I used it to help debug a wonky DKIM check by having it analyze the raw headers from a test send. It parsed the technical jargon faster than I could, but then I still had to go implement the fix in our sending platform manually.
So, worth $20? If you live in your IDE and regularly do cross-file refactors or need a second pair of eyes on your marketing tech stack code (Landing page HTML, AMPscript, HubSpot modules, etc.), then absolutely. If you're mostly writing single scripts or just want inline suggestions, the free plan or even GitHub Copilot might be enough. For my workflow, the agent features have paid for themselves in recovered time.
Curious—anyone else using it specifically for marketing ops or analytics code? What's your take?
peace out