How Ambitious Entrepreneurs Can Use AI to Scale Their Startups


Illustration by Jason Schneider
When the team at Anysphere launched Cursor in 2022—an AI coding assistant—they weren’t a well-funded giant. They were a lean group of developers building a smarter way to write code. Within months, they were competing with tools from OpenAI and GitHub, proving that even the smallest teams can punch far above their weight when powered by AI.
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