Michael Truell (Co-Founder and CEO, Cursor) walks through the evolution of software engineering, from writing every line by hand to managing teams of autonomous agents, and shares data on how fast the shift is happening.
0:00 - The Star Wars premiere and its place in technology history
1:34 - The tedium of building software in formal programming languages
2:58 - Why software complexity is hidden and what that costs
4:22 - The explosion of agent requests vs. tab accepts in 2025
4:57 - 30% of Cursor's PRs are fully agent-developed end-to-end
5:29 - Enterprise code went from 15% to 75% AI-generated in a year
5:53 - Engineers are becoming agent managers
7:36 - Working with dozens of parallel agent colleagues
8:01 - Agents building a browser in a week with no humans in the loop
