Cursor

“Cursor is the tool that every engineer (including me) instinctively turns to when navigating complexity or hitting a wall. With 100% adoption across our engineering team, Cursor has become an essential part of how we build.”

“Coding agents like Cursor have become the killer app for AI. Not only do coding agents increase the speed at which code is created, they also improve code quality.”

“I'm really a big fan of Cursor. I've enjoyed taking something I love and has been my life's passion and seeing how this AI tool transforms how I create software.”

“Cursor has transformed the way our engineering teams write and ship code, with adoption growing from 150 to over 500 engineers (~60% of our org!) in just a few weeks.”

“Cursor has helped me not only be more productive but also more curious and confident to explore new problem spaces. It's genuinely become an indispensable tool in my daily workflow.”

“In certain cases, we've seen features built in a day that might otherwise have taken weeks to prototype. It helps teams ramp up on unfamiliar codebases, generate meaningful code, and debug complex issues with more speed and confidence.”

“By February 2025, every Coinbase engineer had utilized Cursor, which has become the preferred IDE for most of our developers. Single engineers are now refactoring, upgrading, or building new codebases in days instead of months.”

“I was team IntelliJ for life and am now one of Cursor's top fans. Across the board, we've seen a 2–5x increase in engineering velocity, better handling of tech debt, code refactors, unit testing, and the ability to prototype ideas in hours instead of weeks.”

“We're seeing engineering teams in our portfolio and at Carlyle use Cursor to accelerate product roadmaps, ship features faster, and handle surges in demand, all while maintaining quality and focus. The AI capabilities and tab completion features are phenomenal, and the ability to start small and scale usage over time has been a real differentiator.”

“Watching a dozen agent branches merge every day has become normal, and that freed-up velocity shows up everywhere from release cadence to bug-backlog burn-down. Cursor isn't a convenience add-on; it's a scale-multiplier for the whole org.”

“It's definitely becoming more fun to be a programmer. It's less about digging through pages and more about what you want to happen. We are at the 1% of what's possible, and it's in interactive experiences like Cursor where models like GPT-5 shine brightest.”

“More than 70% of our engineers now use Cursor, and we've seen meaningful gains in day-to-day development, faster execution on large-scale migrations, increased rate of debugging, and even faster onboarding.”

“Cursor quickly grew from hundreds to thousands of extremely enthusiastic Stripe employees. We spend more on R&D and software creation than any other undertaking, and there's significant economic outcomes when making that process more efficient and productive.”

“It's definitely becoming more fun to be a programmer. We are at the 1% of what's possible, and it's in interactive experiences like Cursor where models like GPT-5 shine brightest.”

“The most useful AI tool that I currently pay for, hands down, is Cursor. It's fast, autocompletes when and where you need it to, handles brackets properly, sensible keyboard shortcuts, bring-your-own-model... everything is well put together.”

“Cursor quickly grew from hundreds to thousands of extremely enthusiastic Stripe employees. We spend more on R&D and software creation than any other undertaking, and there's significant economic outcomes when making that process more efficient.”

“The best LLM applications have an autonomy slider: you control how much independence to give the AI. In Cursor, you can do Cmd+K for targeted edits, or let it rip with the full autonomy agentic version.”

“My favorite enterprise AI service is Cursor. Every one of our engineers, some 40,000, are now assisted by AI and our productivity has gone up incredibly.”

“It was night and day from one batch to another, adoption went from single digits to over 80%. It just spread like wildfire, all the best builders were using Cursor.”