# Opinion: Cursor AI Coding Stats: Power Users vs Median Devs

Cursor's AI coding report shows power users write 10x more code than median users. Top 1% generate 30-40K lines weekly, equivalent to 45 median devs. Input tokens dominate usage, with 90% used for reading codebases.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-interesting-ai-coding-stats-from-cursor/

Publisher: The Pragmatic Engineer — Opinion / commentary.

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Created: 2026-10-20T23:47:09.848879+00:00

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