The tech world is buzzing with another bold claim about AI coding assistants. This time, it’s about Cursor apparently churning out a billion lines of “accepted” code daily. Reading this while working on a legacy codebase migration project at my desk in South Melbourne, I had to pause and reflect on what this really means.

Numbers can be deceiving, especially in software development. Back in my early career days, I remember the misguided pride I took in writing hundreds of lines of code daily. Now, with decades of experience under my belt, I take far more satisfaction in deleting unnecessary code than adding new lines.