Tag: software-engineering

Cursor says its latest swarm system outperformed an earlier version on a Rust rewrite of SQLite, while using different planner-worker mixes to sharply reduce cost and coordination overhead.

A new controlled study suggests code cleanliness may not change whether a coding agent succeeds, but it does affect how much work the agent has to do.

A new analysis argues that AI spend is already rising fast enough at frontier labs to rival payroll — and that the rest of the market could follow a very different path depending on model prices, usage patterns, and open-weight alternatives.