Cursor Publishes 'What We've Learned Building Cloud Agents' — 50M+ Actions/Day, 40% of Internal PRs from Agents
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Cursor's Josh Ma details hard-won lessons from scaling cloud agents: development environment fidelity is the single biggest quality factor, they process over 50 million actions per day across 7 million unique workflows, and 40% of Cursor's own PRs now come from cloud agents. They migrated to Temporal for durable execution, going from one to two nines of reliability, and found that decoupling agent loops from machine state enables agents to spawn subagents across pods and outlive their parent processes.