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The third era of AI software development · Cursor

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A third era of AI software development is emerging as autonomous cloud agents take on larger tasks over longer timescales.

When we started building Cursor a few years ago, most code was written one keystroke at a time. Tab autocomplete changed that and opened the first era of AI-assisted coding. Then agents arrived, and developers shifted to directing agents through synchronous prompt-and-response loops. That was the second era. Now a third era is arriving. It is defined by agents that can tackle larger tasks independently, over longer timescales, with less human direction. As a result, Cursor is no longer primarily about writing code. It is about helping developers build the factory that creates their…

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