Five themes emerged in our research: developer acceleration, the economics of intelligence, the power user gap, the rise of context, and the shift to automation
Cursor has released a report detailing trends in AI-assisted software development. The report highlights that input tokens are becoming a significant cost factor as AI agents utilize more context. It also notes a widening gap between power users and other developers, and a substantial cost variation across different AI model families for generating code. AI
IMPACT Highlights how AI agent context and model choice impact development costs and user engagement.