Thirty-five percent of the PRs we merge internally at Cursor are now created by agents operating autonomously in cloud VMs.
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Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026.
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Cursor (Anysphere), “The third era of AI software development”, Cursor (own site), 2026-02-26. https://cursor.com/blog/third-era Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cursor-thirty-five-percent-prs-merge-internally-cursor-2026
More than one-third of the PRs we merge are now created by agents that run on their own computers in the cloud.
Cursor (Anysphere)Published by the organization itself (post), no named author
Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026.
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