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Byline on the Cursor blog post 'The third era of AI software development'. The page states no title.
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In March 2025, we had roughly 2.5x as many Tab users as agent users. Now, that is flipped: we now have 2x as many agent users as Tab users.
Michael TruellAuthor of the Cursor blog post; CEO of Cursor per the lead record (the page gives no title) · Executive, 
Cursor (Anysphere)
Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026, at From Tab to agents.
Agent usage in Cursor has grown over 15x in the last year.
Michael TruellAuthor of the Cursor blog post; CEO of Cursor per the lead record (the page gives no title) · Executive, Cursor (Anysphere)
Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026, at From Tab to agents.
At industrial scale, a flaky test or broken environment that a single developer can work around turns into a failure that interrupts every agent run.
Michael TruellAuthor of the Cursor blog post; CEO of Cursor per the lead record (the page gives no title) · Executive, Cursor (Anysphere)
Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026, at The shift is underway inside Cursor.
The human role shifts from guiding each line of code to defining the problem and setting review criteria.
Michael TruellAuthor of the Cursor blog post; CEO of Cursor per the lead record (the page gives no title) · Executive, Cursor (Anysphere)
Post: The third era of AI software development, Cursor (own site), February 26, 2026, at Cloud agents and artifacts.