AI Coding Power Users Are Churning Out 46X More Code Than The Rest

Cursor says its top 1% of AI-active developers generate 46x more AI-written code lines per day than the median user and merge 15x more pull requests each week.

The company says these power users use agent workflows to automate routine coding, then review and assemble the output themselves.

Cursor is moving beyond code editing into planning and infrastructure tools as AI-generated code volumes rise and GitHub strain grows.

The report underscores both the productivity upside of AI coding and the risks of buggy, low-quality code that may not translate into business value.

The news lands as Cursor faces tougher competition from Anthropic's coding tools, including Claude Code.