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The Pulse #140: Does Cursor make developers less effective?
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The Pulse #140: Does Cursor make developers less effective?

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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message.

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  1. Cursor makes developers less effective? A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at a…

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