"Cursor spread fast" is overblown: most software isn't agent-written yet
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-25
Part 6/8 of the thread. Pushing back on "Cursor and agentic coding spread very quickly!": kind of—most software is still not written that way, and productivity in software remains hard to observe. Has price collapsed in any category? Not yet. A direct challenge to the narrative that agentic coding is already transforming output.
Related event: Economist Thread: AI Growth Bottleneck Arguments Hold Up(9 posts)→
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