They probably aren't thrilled, but a lot of users will prefer a UI and I doubt Anthropic has the spare cycles to make a full Cursor competitor.

Unless Cursor had agreed to an exclusivity agreement with Anthropic, Antropic was (and still is) at risk of Cursor moving to a different provider or using their middleman position to train/distill their own model that competes with Anthropic.

honestly, is this something that anthropic should be worried about? you could ask the same question from all the startups that were destroyed by OpenAI.

Anthropic is still making the shovels