SDLC
The software development lifecycle: the whole route a change takes from idea to ticket to code to review to release to whatever it does in production. People say it when they mean the parts either side of writing the code.
Where it comes up
Cursor 101
“So, um it's built for the entire software development life cycle. It will help you read unfamiliar code. It will make changes across files, help you with debugging even. Uh it's going to review. It has a capability to review code for you. U…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“providers openai google anthropic xai and beyond this also building our own internal knowhow as to specialize machine learning models that are purpose-built for the coding use case like composer one. uh beyond this you know in terms of cove…”
Cursor for Professional Services
“vision behind cursor when it comes to the SCLC. And what we're trying to achieve here is come to a state where every engineer and every um professional services engineer can essentially expand the role by bringing different parts of the SDL…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“so much more than just an editor. Firstly, Cursor has full semantic awareness of your entire codebase. That includes things like files, dependencies, and team conventions. And on top of the editor, we also offer native AI workflows. things…”
Cursor x Slack
“And of course as we all know in the software development life cycle, we have a planning phase, a building phase, a shipping phase where we're validating and making sure that the infrastructure is running properly and then of course we have…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“We also have uh a product called BugBot that does automated code review at the Oregon and repo level. And so, kind of the idea here is that Cursor surface area has expanded to essentially meet you wherever you and your engineers work across…”
Cursor 201
“them, let them run over time on on bigger bigger pieces of functionality. We'll talk a little bit about BugBot, which I think we're all kind of seeing this, all this code is getting generated, right, with with AI today. So, what do you do w…”
Cursor for Product Managers
“Pat and Rohan and Emily are all here to help answer questions. Um and then we'll also have some time for like open Q&A as well later on. Okay. So to get started today we're talking about cursor for product managers. Um I think Rohan highlig…”
Developer Productivity Trends
“cycle things like onboarding new code refactors writing tests and now honestly even code reviews um being accelerated by AI by two to five times. Um but we're not seeing an even kind of uh acceleration across the entire software development…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“in your software development life cycle. We're also supporting our CLI as a first class product where it's going to have feature parity with the IDE and be another great option for working with her agents. Lastly, the two things I would rec…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“You can kick off any task. Choose a model that you want. Just send it off. An hour or two later, come back. it'll be all completed. And the next thing that we're also very very enthusiastic in sharing is uh automations across all software d…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“>> Uh good question. No, it's the you um uh uh as a user of cursor, you have the ability to use both uh both ask and agent. So there aren't role-based access access controls to dictate whether you can uh generate code or um or just ask. Uh…”
Model Selection & Token Efficiency
“And so the Cursor ecosystem, many people might initially be aware of Cursor as kind of an IDE or a AI supercharged version of VS Code. And in 2026 and beyond, Cursor's actually evolved to become an end-to-end SDLC platform to optimize all t…”