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Software Engineer

Which Software Engineer seat is healthier — Cursor, OpenAI, or Anthropic?

Anthropic is the healthier seat.

Health is cash share, work-email ticks, and a book that is not cooling.

The desk · cash share, work-email ticks, book, heat

1. 1Anthropic$591k

   cash 42% · 10/18 ticks · hot · Claude · $5B ARR · +120% · Series F

2. 2OpenAI$653k

   cash 41% · 11/23 ticks · hot · $13B ARR · +80% · still the default AI seat

3. 3Cursor$850k

   cash 31% · 7/14 ticks · hot · Cursor · $500M+ ARR · still the default AI IDE