U.S. Internet: Charts Worth a Look: Agentic Trends from Cursor

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U.S. Internet: Charts Worth a Look: Agentic Trends from Cursor

Equity Research

12 June 2026

U.S. Internet

Charts Worth a Look: Agentic

Trends from Cursor

Token-maxxing is a nuanced debate that likely shifts to "AI U.S. Internet

natives vs. AI beginners." Cursor data shows that top SW POSITIVE

engineers are generating 46x the code and 15x the PRs of the U.S. Internet

Ross Sandler

average SWE, and AI generated code survival rate is 80%+ and +1 415 263 4470

increasing. Productivity stems from using tokens efficiently. ross.sandler@barclays.com

BCI, US

Alex Hughes

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+1 212 526 1054Inc., doing business as Cursor. Information about this company is being provided for information

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The Key Takeaway: Cursor's Spring 2026 Developer Habits Report is one of the clearest looks Owen Clendenin

into how agentic workflows have been moving from concept to production. The report shows +1 212 526 7518

where productivity is accelerating and the power user gap is widening. We see coding as the owen.clendenin@barclays.com

leading edge of agent adoption and expect these trends to diffuse out to knowledge workers BCI, US

more broadly over coming quarters. Alexander Kessinger

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Developers are generating double the amount of lines of code per week vs. last year, codebase alexander.kessinger@barclays.com