# David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast

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Published: 2026-02-10T01:08:06+00:00
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David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast David Gomes, product engineer at Cursor, sits down with Victoria Melnikova to talk about why the world's best engineers are fully adopting AI while half of developers haven't started, why AI coding is a learnable skill that takes practice, and how he built a 50-person engineering team in Portugal from scratch. He shares what it was like going through Neon's $1B Databricks acquisition, why diverse teams outperform business-obsessed ones, and why his next company will be his own. Victoria Melnikova is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, and host of Dev Propulsion Labs. She works with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. https://x.com/vmelnikova_en Evil Martians is a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. https://evilmartians.com/ Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com 00:00 Introduction and guest welcome 01:44 Current state of AI-assisted coding and market adoption 03:33 Developer resistance to change: senior vs junior engineers 05:19 World's best engineers fully adopting AI coding 07:36 Having personalized workflows 08:19 Different engineering styles inside Cursor 10:42 AI coding as a learnable skill requiring practice 14:12 Future of agent coding and AI SREs 15:35 Growing up in Europe vs living in America 19:27 David's career path: competitive programming to SF 26:17 Building a 50-person engineering team in Portugal 29:50 Working at Neon and the $1B Databricks acquisition…

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