i dont think it actually does anything better than the chat window in the editor. its strictly worse tbh. it just lets you not be tied to a VSCode interface for editing.im sure Jetbrains diehards would very much appreciate this, but honestly i will find it hard to utilize given the fact Cursor's tab auto-complete is so amazing.
To compete with Claude code
They are competing with Claude Code already. The competition is not over who can built the nicest CLI.
They now compete in a larger market - non vscode users