Towards self-driving codebases

kept by eddie feb 09

Cursor built a multi-agent harness that recursively delegates coding tasks across planners and workers, achieving ~1000 commits per hour on a browser research project with minimal human intervention.

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Using Git as a package manager backend causes performance and scaling problems as ecosystems grow, leading to workarounds like proxies and sparse checkouts.
also on Cargo, #git, GitHub, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
also on #git, GitHub, Cursor, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code using AI coding agents in three days for $260, arguing that AI reduces the cost of complexity.
also on #git, GitHub, Cursor, #software-engineering, #developer-tools