Koratana: Cursor and AI tools increase development pace 5x to 10x
Animesh Koratana · Great Founders Aren't Writing Code. They're Building Its Immune System. | Animesh, PlayerZero · May 20, 2026 · at 27:54
Animesh Koratana, founder and CEO of PlayerZero, discusses the accelerating velocity of software engineering driven by modern AI coding assistants.
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“As cloud code comes in, as cursor comes in, like we're all feeling this already at all of our companies. Just the pace of development is, you know, five X, 10 X.”
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