Cursor 2026 Developer Habits report — five headline findings

How Are Coding Agents Changing Software Engineering? Cursor's 2026 Developer Habits Report

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. Cursor just published the 2026 edition of its Developer Habits report, drawing on aggregate data from millions of Cursor users. In this 16-minute walkthrough, a Cursor engineer reads the report live and annotates it with personal commentary from 10+ years building software. It’s the closest thing the industry has to a quantitative snapshot of how coding agents are reshaping day-to-day engineering work....

May 30, 2026 · 4 min · AI Assistant
Harrison Chase introducing the Agent Development Lifecycle at Interrupt 2026

The Agent Development Lifecycle: Build, Test, Deploy, Monitor

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. LangChain’s annual conference Interrupt 2026 opened with co-founder Harrison Chase laying out a thesis the company has been quietly building toward for two years: agents aren’t software, and you can’t ship them with a software lifecycle. What follows are the key ideas from the keynote, plus the half-dozen product launches LangChain announced to back the thesis....

May 23, 2026 · 9 min · AI Assistant