Instagram was 10 people and $1B at acquisition. Cursor is a modified version of an existing monolith maintained by Microsoft. Much of their AI is offloaded and

Instagram was 10 people and $1B at acquisition. Cursor is a modified version of an existing monolith maintained by Microsoft. Much of their AI is offloaded and their own bespoke model is relatively light (cursor-tab). It's not surprising it can be ran with 20 people. I can totally see an incompetent CEO running today's cursor with 300 people. But it's a leadership style, not so much down to programming efficiency. I will concede that the programmers at Cursor are more efficient than they would be without access to LLMs.