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we had code owners in our code base and they were kind of right most of the time, like 80% of the time. But for these 20% of the time, they cost a lot of bottlenecks for us internally. … So what we started doing was building this agentic code owner thing. And what it essentially does is look in at PRs and check in like, first of all, what's the risk of this? What's the risk level? … And if it is a low risk, it can just approve the PR …

Eric ZakariassonEngineer, Developer Experience and Product, Cursor · Practitioner, Cursor (Anysphere)

Context. Zakariasson is describing an internal Cursor tool that replaces some human code-owner reviews of pull requests.

Talk: Building your own software factory, AI Engineer (YouTube), April 28, 2026, at 27:55.

  • 80% code owner correct rate, as described in the 2026 talk

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Cursor (Anysphere): $4 billion revenue, annualised, early June 2026 Sells AI tools

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Eric Zakariasson, Engineer, Developer Experience and Product, Cursor. Works inside Cursor and describes how his own team builds and runs the product with agents, so he is an insider on those practices; Cursor sells AI coding tools and the talk shows its own product, so it is promotional.

Cursor (Anysphere) sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.

How this was checked

Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-04).

Whisper transcript at about 27:55–28:30. The ellipses cover the omitted 'Like we were blocked… timezone' text and the 'Can we, is it just like changing a variable name…' text. The words match. The transcript has no speaker labels, so the speaker rests on the video being Eric Zakariasson's workshop.

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Eric Zakariasson (Cursor (Anysphere)), “Building your own software factory”, AI Engineer (YouTube), 2026-04-28, at 27:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnDm57Py54A Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cursor-agentic-code-owner-approves-low-risk-prs-2026

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