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....

June 13, 2026 · 7 min · AI Assistant