David Gomes from Cursor explains their transition from a complex, 15,000-line Git WorkTrees feature to a lightweight, flexible solution built on Markdown prompts. He details how 'Skills' and 'Sub-agents' recreated parallel coding workflows, and discusses the trade-offs, failure modes, and lessons learned from shifting product logic from hard code to natural language instructions.
Eric Zakariasson from Cursor explains the shift from single-agent pair programming to managing a multi-agent "software factory". He outlines the practical steps required, from establishing a well-structured codebase with guardrails to adopting a managerial mindset that focuses on automation, asynchronous work, and scaling agent fleets to increase software development throughput and consistency.
Conor Hoekstra demonstrates how to achieve exponential productivity by combining AI-assisted development, array programming, and high-performance computing. Using a financial dashboard app built entirely with AI (Vibe Coding), he showcases a custom array-based DSL with a dual backend (interpreted BQN and compiled NVIDIA Parrot for GPUs), urging developers to fully embrace modern tools and elevate their expectations of what is possible.
Simon Hørup Eskildsen, founder of turbopuffer, shares his journey from scaling Shopify's infrastructure to creating a new search engine for the AI era. He discusses how a prohibitively expensive experiment at Readwise inspired him to build a cost-effective vector search solution based on object storage and NVMe. Eskildsen breaks down turbopuffer's architecture, its role in cutting costs for companies like Cursor and Notion, his philosophy on building a 'P99' engineering team, and how agentic workloads are changing the future of retrieval.
Cursor's team discusses their latest Cloud Agents launch, which gives agents full cloud VMs to test changes, record demo videos, and provide remote access. We explore parallel model swarms, bug reproduction workflows, and the future of agentic coding where throughput and new bottlenecks in review and CI/CD take center stage.
Ricky Doar, VP of Solutions at Cursor, shares best practices for leveraging AI in software development, focusing on effective problem decomposition, context management, and navigating both new and legacy codebases. He highlights common anti-patterns, such as over-reliance on AI, and offers strategies for debugging, model steerability, and building effective agent harnesses.