Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents

Summary

So this is another experiment that we ran last [music] year and didn't decide to ship at that time but may come back to LM judge but one that was also agentic and could write code. So it wasn't just picking but also like taking the learnings from two models or and models that it was looking at and writing a new diff. And what we found was that there were [music] strengths to using models from different model providers as the base level of this process. [music] basically yo…

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All speakers are announced at AIE EU, schedule coming soon. Join us there or in Miami with the renowned organizers of React Miami! Singapore CFP also open!We’ve called this out a few times over in AINews, but the overwhelming consensus in the Valley is that “the IDE is Dead”. In November it was just a gut feeling, but now we actually have data: even at the canonical “VSCode Fork” company, people are officially using more agents than tab autocomplete (the first wave of AI coding):Cursor has launc

Themes

• ai
• So it wasn't just picking but also like taking the learnings from two models or and models that it was looking at and writing a new diff
• And what we found was that there were [music] strengths to using models from different model providers as the base level of this process
• [music] basically you could get almost like a synergistic output that was better than having like a very unified like bottom model tier