Anysphere Automated the First Principles of Software. What’s Next?

Anysphere’s Cursor AI coding assistant hit a million users this April, reportedly without spending a cent on marketing, and all through developer word of mouth.  Even so, it has been more than a “trendy” product. Cursor succeeded because it met developers where their pain points live, helping them avoid the long hours lost to boilerplate debugging, and navigating complex codebases.  But with a $9.9 billion valuation, $500 million in annual revenue, and half of the Fortune 500 on board, the company now faces a different kind of question: Can they sustain their growth, especially with a product that could essentially build itself, and evolve further?  Explaining their Growth Rate Anysphere’s ascent is staggering. In just three years, the MIT-founded startup