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CURSOR'S AGENT SWARM SHOWS CHEAP MODELS CAN CODE
Cursor demonstrated that cheaper AI models can handle most coding tasks when frontier models serve as planners. The company's upgraded agent swarm successfully rebuilt SQLite in Rust with 100 percent test accuracy, while the previous system failed due to merge conflicts.
The Decoder+0m
Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with n…