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title: "Cursor — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# Cursor (🤖 Agents)

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Cursor is 🔥 Hot on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 29 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 9 points lower than 7 days before. It has been in hype for 8 days, since Sep 20, and peaked at 40 on Sep 24.

Cursor, Anysphere's AI-agent code editor; acquired by SpaceX for $60B (closed Sep 2026), now part of SpaceXAI.

First seen on Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode.

Why this stage: in hype for 8 days; 29 vs peak 40 on Sep 24.

- **Stage:** 🔥 Hot — in hype and holding up
- **Hype score:** 29.3 / 100 · +10.9 in 1 day · −9.3 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** Sep 20, 2026 (8 days)
- **Peak, 30 days:** 40.2 on Sep 24, 2026
- **Category:** 🤖 Agents
- **Made by:** [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Official site:** [cursor.com](https://cursor.com)
- **Sources above normal:** 2 of 28 scoring it (2 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 852
- **Share of voice:** 1.5% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

## Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Google News (RSS) | articles | 35 | 1 | 18× | yes | 59% |
| Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 29 | 5 | 5× | yes | 37% |
| GitHub | new repos | 5 | 1 | 3× | no | 4.5% |
| Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 10 | 10 | 1× | no | 0% |
| GDELT (world news) | news volume | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

1. [zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill: Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 +](https://github.com/zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill) — GitHub Trending (zhaoxuya520) · score 37,920
2. [Grok 4.7 is about 2.5 times as expensive as 4.6](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1wmswj9/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Sep 21 · score 109 · 33 comments
3. [Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866597) — Hacker News (markdown.beauty) · Sep 27 · score 68 · 51 comments
4. [Can Claude Code and Cursor actually enforce your org rules and coding standards?](https://dev.to/dev_kiran/can-claude-code-and-cursor-actually-enforce-your-org-rules-and-coding-standards-1e44) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 60 · 5 comments
5. [Cookies & Careers with SpaceXAI Engineering 🍪](https://luma.com/rh46cluu) — Luma (SF AI events) (Nithya Appannagaari) · score 40
6. [blixvip/html-anime: Prompt an anime. A shot-sheet harness and skills so Claude, Codex, Cursor, or Grok can draw it in code.](https://github.com/blixvip/html-anime) — GitHub (blixvip) · Sep 27 · score 15
7. ["Taking longer than expected" on any task](https://forum.cursor.com/t/taking-longer-than-expected-on-any-task/172698) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 4 comments
8. [Claude Code, Cursor and Codex start every session from zero. A 2-minute demo of a local index and memory they share, on your machine.#ai #mcp #productivity #devtools #software #coding #development #e…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-a12a350c-03f7e2d6d6e78dd6) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 0 comments
9. [New Data Show Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Upstarts Are Eating into Software Budgets](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-data-show-anthropic-openai-upstarts-eating-software-budgets) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22
10. [Grok 4.7 Performance in Cursor](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1woad6b/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Sep 23 · score 37 · 67 comments
11. [Browser tools \(CDP / Browser Tab\) are significantly slower than in Claude](https://forum.cursor.com/t/browser-tools-cdp-browser-tab-are-significantly-slower-than-in-claude/173047) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 26 · score 2 · 3 comments
12. ["2 new messages": why?](https://forum.cursor.com/t/2-new-messages-why/173111) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 4 comments

## Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 643 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 59% of its stories
- [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 30% of its stories
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 21% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 15% of its stories
- [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 14% of its stories
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 11% of its stories

Payment rails its stories name:

- [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 2 stories

## Related topics

- **Competes with:** [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md)
- **Made by:** [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Related to:** [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (383 stories), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) (225 stories), [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) (141 stories), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md) (28 stories), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (19 stories), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) (11 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 29.3 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 18.5 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 30.5 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 40.2 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 28.5 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 28.4 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 38.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 38.6 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 11 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 13.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 13.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 11.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 10.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 12.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 5.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 7.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 17.9 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 5.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 30.5 | 🚀 Rising |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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