One signal

A developer identified as poteto says Cursor is now good enough with pstack to keep at least 10 projects running in parallel, from performance work and technical debt to experiments, dashboards and games.

Why it matters

That is a personal account, not a benchmark, but it captures a concrete shift in AI-assisted software work: the appeal is less one spectacular generated feature than keeping several small engineering jobs moving at once. The claim comes from a post on X published on 24 September. There are no independent productivity figures in the supplied evidence, so “1000x engineer” belongs in the enthusiasm drawer, not the methods section. Still, juggling ten projects sounds less like a productivity hack than a new way to create ten tabs of future maintenance. Would you rather have an AI assistant help run many small projects, or make one important project substantially better?

Discuss: Would you rather have an AI assistant help run many small projects, or make one important project substantially better?

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