Cursor quickly grew from hundreds to thousands of extremely enthusiastic Stripe employees. We spend more on R&D and software creation than any other undertaking, and there’s significant economic outcomes when making that process more efficient and productive.

More than 70% of our engineers now use Cursor, and we’ve seen meaningful gains in day-to-day development, faster execution on large-scale migrations, increased rate of debugging, and even faster onboarding.

It’s definitely becoming more fun to be a programmer. It’s less about digging through pages and more about what you want to happen. We are at the 1% of what’s possible, and it’s in interactive experiences like Cursor where models like GPT-5 shine brightest.

Watching a dozen agent branches merge every day has become normal, and that freed-up velocity shows up everywhere from release cadence to bug-backlog burn-down. Cursor isn't a convenience add-on; it’s a scale-multiplier for the whole org.

We’re seeing engineering teams in our portfolio and at Carlyle use Cursor to accelerate product roadmaps, ship features faster, and handle surges in demand, all while maintaining quality and focus. The AI capabilities and tab completion features are phenomenal, and the ability to start small and scale usage over time has been a real differentiator.

I was team IntelliJ for life and am now one of Cursor's top fans. Across the board, we’ve seen a 2–5x increase in engineering velocity, better handling of tech debt, code refactors, unit testing, and the ability to prototype ideas in hours instead of weeks.

By February 2025, every Coinbase engineer had utilized Cursor, which has become the preferred IDE for most of our developers. Single engineers are now refactoring, upgrading, or building new codebases in days instead of months.

In certain cases, we’ve seen features built in a day that might otherwise have taken weeks to prototype. It helps teams ramp up on unfamiliar codebases, generate meaningful code, and debug complex issues with more speed and confidence.

Cursor has helped me not only be more productive but also more curious and confident to explore new problem spaces. It's genuinely become an indispensable tool in my daily workflow.

Cursor has transformed the way our engineering teams write and ship code, with adoption growing from 150 to over 500 engineers (~60% of our org!) in just a few weeks.

I'm really a big fan of Cursor. I’ve enjoyed taking something I love and has been my life’s passion and seeing how this AI tool transforms how I create software.

Coding agents like Cursor have become the killer app for AI. Not only do coding agents increase the speed at which code is created, they also improve code quality.

Cursor is the tool that every engineer (including me) instinctively turns to when navigating complexity or hitting a wall. With 100% adoption across our engineering team, Cursor has become an essential part of how we build.

Cursor took the most popular IDE in the world and put it on steroids. It’s exceptional at debugging issues and attributing them to precise historical code changes, has stellar writing documentation skills, and has been incredibly helpful for new joiners in helping them ramp.

At Optiver, we’ve recently expanded our Cursor usage to firm-wide deployment. Our teams have consistently found Cursor to be robust, context-aware, and flexible enough to support the scale and complexity of a global trading firm.

We’ve rolled Cursor out to over 800 engineers and are seeing significant output lift in how teams plan and execute code changes. Whether you’re building new applications or refactoring legacy systems, I would highly recommend Cursor to other CTOs.

Across roles and levels, we’re seeing an increase of over 25% in PR volume and over 100% in the average PR size. Together, that means we’re shipping about 50% more code.

I’ve never, as a CTO, received so many texts or Slack messages from employees just saying “Thank you for getting this technology here.”