Alexi Robbins
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@alexirobbins
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Cursor now shows you demos, not diffs. Agents can use the software they build and send you videos of their work.
We were able to significantly improve the model quality and cost to serve. These quality improvements come from our first continued pretraining run, providing a far stronger base to scale our reinforcement learning.
Composer 2 is now available in Cursor.
On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all. Check out the full story: forbes.com/sites/annatong… (📸: Kimberly White via Getty Images for Fortune Media)
🆕 Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents latent.space/p/cursor-third… "Cursor is no longer primarily about writing code. It is about helping developers build the factory that creates their software." — @mntruell We chat with @sjwhitmore and @jonas_nelle, both ex founders who are behind the Cloud Agents Computer launch last week, as Cursor enters its Third Era. We dive into all the technical discussions behind the tech choices, stuff that was *not* yet shipped, and @wilsonzlin's mad science experiments that have manifested in the new "Grind mode", and point the way for massively parallel, long horizon, highly autonomous agents. thanks so much to @edwinarbus for helping us get this episode together on short notice!
We're introducing Cursor Automations to build always-on agents.
✨New demo: what if vibe coding felt more visual? @brian_lovin @maryrosecook and I did a game jam using Notion as our "IDE": launching Cursor agents from a task board, and making a custom image for each task 😎 The demo shows 3 ideas for the future of agents: 1) Agents should collaborate across apps. Each app has its focus--Notion AI is good at drafting specs and organizing tasks; Cursor is good at coding. So let them specialize! Today we're launching a new integration where Notion AI can kick off Cursor Cloud Agents to do coding tasks. The Cursor API accepts natural language prompts, so I think of this as "cross-app sub-agents" -- it's kinda cute how it resembles humans hiring outside contractors 😊 BTW: the parallelism of cloud agents is incredibly freeing for creativity, but it also creates a new problem: sooo much work to keep track of! Which brings us to the next idea... 2) Agent orchestration is a data visualization problem. A powerful frame for designing agent UIs is to think of the chat transcripts as the "raw data" and ask: what visual projections might help people make sense of this data at scale? We need to engage our human GPUs -- our visual processing -- to understand what the computer GPUs are doing for us! One thing we can do is use AI to populate traditional UIs like progress bars and status updates. But there are also new possibilities now... For example: when you have a lot going on, it can be hard to identify tasks just by text titles. So we tried generating an AI image for each task -- turns out this helps a lot by giving it a unique visual identity! And of course, it also just makes it super fun to build with friends 😃 Speaking of friends... 3) The future of coding is collaborative. Sometimes it feels like IC engineers are being reduced to middle managers: shuffling information between the team's context and the coding agents that they individually manage. The solution: bring all the people and agents into one shared space, with shared context and visibility! In the video you can get a glimpse of how this feels. Mary, Brian and I record ourselves chatting about ideas, and then we use AI to turn that conversation into a list of tasks on a shared board. As the ideas get built in parallel, we can all monitor progress and review the work together, nothing is siloed. My main takeaway from this game jam was: damn, creativity with friends, at the speed of conversation, is incredibly fun. --- Our goal here is to let anyone use Notion as a fun and creative "software factory" to build software together with your team. Give the Cursor integration a shot and let us know what you think! (AI Image gen in Notion isn't GA yet, but coming soon and already out to some users) And let me know if you'd want a template or more detailed instructions on the setup we showed in this demo...
