The Pulse: Interesting AI coding stats from Cursor

The Pragmatic Engineer · 1 month ago · 46 ● 5 sources

Cursor released a report on two years of aggregated usage data showing that median developers generate 700 lines of code per week with the tool, while top 1% users generate 30,000-40,000 lines weekly. Input tokens account for 90% of token usage and 70% of costs, with Cursor's Composer model being approximately 10x cheaper per request than Anthropic's Opus 4.7, though similar in cost-per-line-accepted. Developer behavior shifted dramatically in one month from 10% to 40% of users allowing AI agents to commit code without manual review, correlating with the release of more capable models like Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5.