codebase indexing

Cursor reading your repository once, splitting it into chunks, and storing embeddings of them so it can later find relevant code by meaning rather than by exact filename.

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Developer Productivity Trends

Jan 27, 2026first said at 11:411 mention

“higher quality. [snorts] And so um what they found was they they saw 2x double-digit gains in both code quality and velocity which is really really high uh especially across you know 20,000 developers and a 30 gigabyte code base. They actua…”