Cursor Users Code 65% More Than VS Code Users: AI Copilot Impact 2026
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AI coding assistants went from novelty to necessity in under three years. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cody, and dozens of alternatives now sit inside developers' editors, suggesting code, answering questions, and writing boilerplate. A Deloitte report on AI adoption in software development estimates that ~70% of enterprise development teams now use some form of AI coding assistance.
But are they actually making developers more productive? Or just more reliant on autocomplete?
We looked at real IDE usage data from 100+ B2B companies to find out what AI-assisted coding looks like in practice.