From Helpdesk To Junior Engineer: The Career Move IT Support Workers Need

Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, recently negotiated a $50 billion valuation after reaching $2 billion in ARR in under three years. The founding team remained small, and the core idea wasn’t hyper-complex theoretical computer science—it was simply a better editor designed for people who write code.

Two years ago, that story might have felt like an outlier. In 2026, it serves as a syllabus. You could plausibly ship a market-ready version of each idea below from your kitchen table during your second year of study.