coding-agents

Charlie from Pause AI describing his 64–128 parallel agents working on KV-cache compaction

Running 128 Coding Agents at Once: Inside Cursor, Pause AI, and the Era of Agent Maxing

A short on-camera conversation between Sam Whitmore (engineer on Cursor’s cloud-agents team) and Charlie + Harry of Pause AI, recorded at Baseten and posted by Cursor as part of its agent-era publicity push. The framing is intentionally provocative — “I’ve got 64 to 128 agents working on this at any given time” — but the substance is closer to a workshop chat between three practitioners who actually live inside agent harnesses all day....

SWE-rebench: Lessons from Evaluating Coding Agents

Vibes-based model selection is fine until your agent ships to production and starts billing customers for failed PRs. Ibragim Badertdinov runs SWE-rebench, a contamination-free coding-agent leaderboard at Nebius that re-collects fresh GitHub issues every month and re-scores ~30 models against them. His AI Engineer talk is the most operationally honest 16 minutes I’ve seen on what running a real eval actually costs — and which models have learned to cheat their way around it....

Walden Yan and Cole Murray discussing Devin's background-agents architecture

Devin's 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7× PRs, and the End of Hand-Held Coding

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. In this 1h10m Latent Space conversation, Cognition CTO Walden Yan and engineer Cole Murray walk through what they’re calling Devin’s “80% moment” — the point at which an autonomous coding agent can land production-grade PRs on real codebases at a rate that changes how teams work. Cognition is reporting a 7× increase in merged PRs for teams that adopt their background-agent workflow, and the conversation digs into why hand-held in-IDE coding is no longer the frontier....

Cursor 2026 Developer Habits report — five headline findings

How Are Coding Agents Changing Software Engineering? Cursor's 2026 Developer Habits Report

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. Cursor just published the 2026 edition of its Developer Habits report, drawing on aggregate data from millions of Cursor users. In this 16-minute walkthrough, a Cursor engineer reads the report live and annotates it with personal commentary from 10+ years building software. It’s the closest thing the industry has to a quantitative snapshot of how coding agents are reshaping day-to-day engineering work....