Developers Digest

Over 30 new plugins are now available on the Cursor Marketplace.

We just crossed 90,000+ stars on GitHub 🤩🔥 We're grateful for your continued support, and can't wait to share what's coming next.

It's true: TypeScript surpassed Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language on GitHub. 📈

We are sharing an early preview of our ongoing SWE-1.6 training run. It significantly improves upon SWE-1.5 while being post-trained on the same pre-trained model - and it runs equally as fast at 950 tok/s. On SWE-Bench Pro it exceeds top open-source models. The preview model still exhibits some undesirable behaviors like overthinking and excessive self-verification, which we aim to improve. We are rolling out early access to a small subset of users in Windsurf.

Powerful new Harvard Business Review study. "AI does not reduce work. It intensifies it. " A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred. That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete. Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away. Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load. Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

Firecrawl is the search and scrape tool backend for Hermes agent 🤗