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Coogan: METR Study Found AI Coding Tools Made Developers 19% Slower
“The meter team did these evaluations where they ran a randomized control trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up open source developers, and what they found was that developers said that they expected products like cursor and windsurf to improve them by…”
Coogan: Cursor hit $2B ARR and is growing 25% month-over-month
“I mean, I just, we just saw this with cursor. Everyone's like, cursor's over, it's dead. And then you see, okay, well, they just hit 20 two billion ARR. Oh, growing 25% month over month.”
Coogan: Cursor Generates $500M in Revenue and $3.2M Per Employee
“The top was Curser at five hundred million in annual revenue and they're making 3.2 million dollars in revenue per employee.”
Swyx: Cursor Grew From Zero to $200M ARR in Two Years
“Zero to two hundred million AR in two years is crazy.”
Hays: Cursor is generating $100M ARR with 20 employees
“And I think we're really seeing that right now in AI where you have companies like cursor, a big one, you know, with 20 people doing a hundred million of ARR.”
Baker: Cursor Is Now Deployed in Half of Fortune 500 Companies
“I do think cursor being in, you know, half the Fortune 500 is interesting.”
Coogan: xAI Poached Two Senior Leaders From Cursor for Coding
“XAI hired two or two senior leaders from Cursor to catch up on coding.”
Cursor Composer 2 costs $0.50 and $2.50 per million tokens.
“It is frontier level at coding priced at 50 cents per million input tokens and two and a half dollars per million output tokens.”