Cursor's Jacob Jackson: AI Tools Have Already Accelerated Many Developers Over 2X
Jacob Jackson · Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI · Sep 5, 2025 · at 8:37
Jacob Jackson (Cursor) explains why AI developer tool pricing should be benchmarked against developer salaries rather than traditional software SaaS pricing.
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“I think many people have been accelerated more than two X by this technology already. And the technology is only going to get better. So I think comparing it to the developer salary is the right way to look at it.”
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