Cursor Automates AI Coding Agent Tasks

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Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking about Cursor. Another really popular vibe coating

app. We talk a lot about, you know, lovable on this podcast because Jay and I both use them. But

Cursor is another really big one. They are rolling out a new kind of agentic coating tool. So

we're going to break this all down today. It sounds like it's essentially a way to maintain

all the code that is made by agents, so kind of like a prompt and a monitoring device. So

which is really useful, especially when you're, you know, setting these agents free to do whatever

they want. So today we're going to talk all about that. Jayden, before we do, why don't you tell

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going on with Cursor. This is an interesting story to me. I love all of these vibe coding tools.

We use Claude code, which is basically like Cursor's big competitor, a ton at AI box. My software

startup that let you build AI tools and try out all the different AI models in one place.

So this is something that I'm super interested in anytime. Someone builds a new feature here

because Cursor's building something new. Claude code is going to copy it. Everyone's kind of

working on stuff, but I am really excited about what's happening in this industry in particular.

I wanted to play a video sharing as a one minute video from the team over at Cursor announcing

Cursor Automations. They're going to explain this to you. It's a video that they posted over on X.

So without further ado, here is Jack from Cursor explaining Cursor Automations.

I'm Jack. And I'm John. And today we're launching Automations in Cursor.

As agents have gotten really capable at handling work autonomously, we found ourselves kicking

them off over and over again for the same type of task. So we thought why not automate that?

It's been crazy to see the creative use cases that people have come up with. For example,

we have an incident triage that gets triggered every time a pager duty monitor goes off.

This one John loves especially because he hits getting woken up at 3am.

Famously. We give it the data dog MCP. And then by the time he rolls out of bed,

all groggy, the agent has come back with a likely root cause.

So I just need to merge the PR and then I can go back to sleep.

I have a personal automation just for myself. It runs on a nightly cron schedule. It looks at all

my PRs from the last day and just cleans up dead code or bad patterns. We're very fortunate to have

this great community of users who are always suggesting new features to build. And we pipe

those through from Twitter onto Slack. And now we can just have an agent automatically

kick off with every single one and just put up a PR right away.

Some of these features if they're simple or actually just getting implemented asynchronously.

The way we do software development has changed so much in the last nine months.

Yeah. And with more software, with more output, you then have more stuff you need to review,

more issues you need to triage, more things to manage around software.

But a lot of these things are automatable.

Thankfully, because we kind of let the agent run free, if you want comments to be

inline threaded comments on GitHub, just prompt your agent to do so.

But he wants to resolve its past comments. Just prompt your agent to do so.

All of these things that people are used to kind of configuring it with checkboxes.

You don't need to do that anymore. Just prompt your agent.

Okay. So I love that. I'm super stoked. I know like a lot of our listeners might not be developers

and personally I'm not a developer. But I have a lot of developers working on AI

box and other other platforms. And a lot of these features that they're building is I think

basically where the trajectory of the entire industry is moving, whether that's in like like

cursor for, yeah, if I'm getting 100% honest, cursor is like cloud code. It's not something I

probably am going to be using anytime super soon because it's like really for developers to use

the inside of inside of like your code base. But these same tools are going to start moving over

to levelable. They're going to start moving over base 44. They're going to start moving over AI

box. All of these other no code tools are going to get these same features. So that's kind of why

we like to announce them here. I want to be excited about them over here.

Yeah. I mean, I think this is a really cool idea. So this is a use case that I think this could

be used for. I made an app unlovable for myself to kind of prospect service businesses with bad

websites. So I can search for, you know, HVAC, Grand Rapids, and then it'll search for, you know,

people with bad websites based on certain criteria. You know, that's all well and good. And so that's,

you know, in a way, it's sort of like an agentic type feature that I've built. Even though it's not,

you know, going around and clicking for me, it's pulling website data from like an API essentially. So

but if you could take this further and kind of automate it, and then I could just wake up every

morning with like a list of 20 businesses to call this could that could be a form of automation where

it's actually taking what I'm, what I've built and running it for me. I think this is really

cool, especially because, you know, with the whole open claw thing, people, there was lots of security

concerns and it's like, you know, who are you giving your data? But if you can have it all be within

one ecosystem and not have, I mean, as long as there's not security concerns, I could see this being

really, really useful. What do you think, dude? Yeah, 100%. So I think it's actually a problem that

they're solving with all of the, like this, basically, automations and automatically doing things

is a problem that they're solving with AI code. Even on Lovable, I recently made podcast studio.com,

I made a charts tab on there. So it shows like all of the podcasts, the top podcast charts.

And this was a massive pain in the butt to make it so it actually automatically every day went

and checked like all the top charts and where everything ranks. How I haven't built right now is that

if you click on a specific podcast, it will show you how that podcast is ranking like historically

in the top charts. But in order to get it to like grab that data every day was a really big pain in

the butt. And I had to set up cron jobs and automations. And so anyways, it was a big ordeal to do.

And so if they're building things in that are automatically able to kind of like set schedules

and scheduled times and like in kind of like a very easy good UI way to figure that out,

then I highly yeah, then I'd be super, super stoked to try something like that.

For people who aren't coders, what do you think like this would translate to in the future for,

let's say, you know, they're really familiar with Chatchy PT. Do you think there'd be any kind of

background agent type things that you'll be able to do with Chatchy PT in the future?

Yeah, I think Chatchy PT already actually made a feature that's very like sort of similar

where they're able to do they're able to do like kind of like automations and will automatically tell you

you can you can set things to happen at certain times. And it's not something I actually see

people using a lot. I'm actually not seeing it over on Chatchy PT right now. I'm trying to look at

it while I'm talking. But in any case, yeah, there's a there was a way in the past like have it

automatically do a search of like a specific time. Or I think if you tell Chatchy PT like every day at

8 a.m. like send me a notification. Oh, you know what it is. It might be their their pulse

feature, which we might have to have like their $200 miles year for I'm not on the

center. But anyways, I think we're going to start seeing more and more of those features where

you have kind of these automations where can automatically do things and you set schedules

for for tools in coding right now in coding world. We're getting to a point where we're setting

loose all of these AI agents with open claw and a lot of these other tools. And they're essentially

running around and like completing tasks for you. But it's hard to tell them like it's annoying

to have to tell them to initiate the task. And so I think what we're what we're seeing is you're

going to set a schedule and it's going to initiate at a specific scheduled time. And I think this

is kind of where we'll we'll see things. It's like every morning at you know 8 a.m. before I start

on this project, I want you to go and like grab all of this data, put together a nice report,

send it to this specific email address and then I can grab it and get started. Like you're going

to want the schedule set up and like technically you could make a prompt and tell your agent to do

that. Is it going to remember? Is it going to loop? Is it going to forget? It's just so much easier

to hard code like a schedule that initiate automatically every day at a specific time. And I think

we're going to get that feature in particular across like every single tool that you use. We're going

to have automation timed automations for all of your stuff you're doing. Yeah, because I mean,

even if you were like a stock trader or something, you could wake up to all the latest corporate.

I need like corporate reports that were released or inflation reports and like have it pop that

out for you. Like you said, first thing when you wake up in the morning, that would be super useful

in that case as well. So yep. So super excited. And as we're actually talking, I'm now thinking that

I need to add this as a feature to AI box. Like we have, there's like tools that will like create

like a newsletter for you or create like a podcast or something, but it's I'm thinking like,

gee, like if I have a newsletter that needs to be sent out every day, like every Thursday,

and it's going to go generate all the content for it, I probably should just have a timer on

there where you set every Thursday. It's going to go run this thing and send you notification

that it finished and you can go do whatever you need to do or it could automatically schedule

eventually. So just talking, I'm already thinking about it. And if that's how I'm thinking about

this with my own software, I guarantee everyone else's. So huge kudos to cursor. They're rolling out

some cool things with their automations, but I think it's also giving a lot of people ideas on

how to implement this into software that regular non coders are also going to be using.

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