The Cursor team continues its marketing adventures on YouTube – they went to Anthropic to also appear on their channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGgsoIgbT_Y

Cursor is growing rapidly thanks to AI integration, especially Claude models. In a year, the company reached $300 million in revenue, and millions of developers started using their tools. Initially, AI only helped with auto-completion or editing a single file, but thanks to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, more complex features appeared, such as multi-file changes or a background agent that performs tasks in parallel. The Cursor team itself uses its product for development, which allows for quickly testing ideas and discarding non-working solutions.

However, working with large codebases remains a challenge – AI often doesn't understand internal nuances like DSLs or non-obvious rules that are passed on verbally. Therefore, code review remains a key step, even if AI writes most of it. In the future, approaches like pseudocode for concise description of changes or integration with other systems (e.g., Slack) might be possible, allowing AI to consider context. At the same time, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and newer versions have significantly improved the quality of generated code.

AI will not replace developers, but it will change their role. It already allows even non-experts (e.g., sales department employees) to create simple tools, and engineers to focus on architecture and UX. By 2027, almost 100% of code will be created with AI assistance, but understanding context will remain a key skill.

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