Cursor Hits 1M Daily Users

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Cursor just hit 1 million daily active users.
Let that number sink in — a code editor built by a small startup is now used daily by more developers than most enterprise tools.
Companies like Stripe and Figma are using it. And now they're launching Composer 2 — an AI agent that handles entire multi-file development tasks, not just autocomplete.
Here's what I think most people are getting wrong about this:
The debate isn't "will AI replace developers?"
The real question is: "which developers will learn to work WITH AI tools fastest?"
As a full stack developer, here's how I think about it:
→ AI handles the boilerplate. I handle the architecture.
→ AI suggests code. I decide if it's production-ready.
→ AI speeds up the "what." I focus on the "why."
The developers who treat AI as a junior pair programmer — not a replacement — are shipping 2-3x faster without sacrificing quality.
3 years ago at Cognizant, I was manually writing every line of Spring Boot boilerplate. Today? The game has completely changed.
But one thing hasn't changed: knowing HOW systems work at scale still matters more than any tool.
The tool writes code. The engineer builds systems.

Source: https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2

What's your experience been with AI coding tools? Love it? Hate it? Somewhere in between? 👇