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There is this tweet about impressive companies with short headcount:

https://x.com/benln/status/1889388151770325427?s=46&t=tl870z...

But I don’t think the advent of LLM is responsible for any job cut in these companies. The overall startup ecosystem is (Stripe, cloud computing, efficient customer support software, etc).

But the fact that Cursor is one of those impressive companies shows the demand for AI assistance is huge

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Instagram was 10 people and $1B at acquisition. Cursor is a modified version of an existing monolith maintained by Microsoft. Much of their AI is offloaded and their own bespoke model is relatively light (cursor-tab). It's not surprising it can be ran with 20 people. I can totally see an incompetent CEO running today's cursor with 300 people. But it's a leadership style, not so much down to programming efficiency. I will concede that the programmers at Cursor are more efficient than they would be without access to LLMs.

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