Case Study: Cursor speeds up development and keeps teams aligned with Linear

Cursor ships updates every 2 weeks with Linear

Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, faced the challenge of managing the increasing pace and complexity of its development as its team and product grew. Feedback and parallel work threads multiplied, making it difficult to separate critical issues blocking releases from other incoming requests, which risked good ideas getting lost. To address this, the team turned to the vendor Linear for work tracking.

By implementing Linear, Cursor created a centralized system to track all work and separate urgent release-blocking issues from other feedback. The solution was enhanced by building a custom agent that works directly inside Linear to autonomously find relevant code files and write a first pass for issues, significantly accelerating the workflow. This kept everything in sync with GitHub and ensured that valuable ideas were executed upon quickly, maintaining their fast pace of development even at a larger scale.

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