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The blog[0] is worded rather conservatively but on Twitter [2] the claim is pretty obvious and the hype effect is achieved [2] CEO stated "We built a browser w

The blog[0] is worded rather conservatively but on Twitter [2] the claim is pretty obvious and the hype effect is achieved [2] CEO stated "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor" instead of "by dividing agents into planners and workers we managed to get them busy for weeks creating thousands of commits to the main branch, resolving merge conflicts along the way. The repo is 1M+ lines of code but the code does not work (yet)" [0] https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents [1] https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2011776630440558799 https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2011776630440558799 [2] https://x.com/mntruell/status/2011562190286045552 https://x.com/mntruell/status/2011562190286045552 [3]https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qd541a/ceo_of_cursor_said_they_coordinated_hundreds_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qd541a/ceo_of...

embedding-shape 9mo ago
So clearly someone, at some point, managed to run this, surely? That's where the screenshots come from? I just don't understand how, given the code is riddled with errors.
- deeth_starr_v 9mo ago
  Maybe they just asked an AI to create an image of a rendered webpage?
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- nicoburns 9mo ago
  Somebody managed to get it to compile https://x.com/CanadaHonk/status/2011612084719796272 https://x.com/CanadaHonk/status/2011612084719796272 But apparently "some pages take a literal minute to load"
  - embedding-shape 9mo ago
    > to be clear those 2 hours were fixing compile errors and bugs, not compile time Seems like "I had to do the last mile myself", not "autonomous coding" which was Cursor's claim here.
deng 9mo ago
Even then, "resolving merge conflicts along the way" doesn't mean anything, as there are two trivial merge strategies that are always guaranteed to work ('ours' and 'theirs').
- fzzzy 9mo ago
  that’s not guaranteed to work. Other parts of the CodeBase that didn’t conflict could depend on the discarded code.
  - dingnuts 9mo ago
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  - formerly_proven 9mo ago
    Well they did mention the code doesn't work.
    - nyeah 9mo ago
      Where did Cursor say that?
      - logicallee 9mo ago
        It's implied by the fact that early in the post they say: >"To test this system, we pointed it at an ambitious goal: building a web browser from scratch." and then near the end, they say: >"Hundreds of agents can work together on a single codebase for weeks, making real progress on ambitious projects." This means they only make progress toward it, but do not "build a web browser from scratch". If you're curious, the State of Utopia (will be available at https://stateofutopia.com https://stateofutopia.com ) did build a web browser from scratch, though it used several packages for the networking portion of it. See my other comments and posts for links.
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nyeah 9mo ago
The link [0] implies that the browser worked. Can you help me understand what's "conservative" about that?
- DonHopkins 9mo ago
  > Can you help me understand what's "conservative" about that? It's the gaslighting.

embedding-shape 9mo ago

So clearly someone, at some point, managed to run this, surely? That's where the screenshots come from? I just don't understand how, given the code is riddled with errors.

deeth_starr_v 9mo ago
Maybe they just asked an AI to create an image of a rendered webpage?
- deleted 9mo ago
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nicoburns 9mo ago
Somebody managed to get it to compile https://x.com/CanadaHonk/status/2011612084719796272 https://x.com/CanadaHonk/status/2011612084719796272 But apparently "some pages take a literal minute to load"
- embedding-shape 9mo ago
  > to be clear those 2 hours were fixing compile errors and bugs, not compile time Seems like "I had to do the last mile myself", not "autonomous coding" which was Cursor's claim here.

deng 9mo ago

Even then, "resolving merge conflicts along the way" doesn't mean anything, as there are two trivial merge strategies that are always guaranteed to work ('ours' and 'theirs').

fzzzy 9mo ago
that’s not guaranteed to work. Other parts of the CodeBase that didn’t conflict could depend on the discarded code.
- dingnuts 9mo ago
  [dead]
- formerly_proven 9mo ago
  Well they did mention the code doesn't work.
  - nyeah 9mo ago
    Where did Cursor say that?
    - logicallee 9mo ago
      It's implied by the fact that early in the post they say: >"To test this system, we pointed it at an ambitious goal: building a web browser from scratch." and then near the end, they say: >"Hundreds of agents can work together on a single codebase for weeks, making real progress on ambitious projects." This means they only make progress toward it, but do not "build a web browser from scratch". If you're curious, the State of Utopia (will be available at https://stateofutopia.com https://stateofutopia.com ) did build a web browser from scratch, though it used several packages for the networking portion of it. See my other comments and posts for links.
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nyeah 9mo ago

The link [0] implies that the browser worked. Can you help me understand what's "conservative" about that?

DonHopkins 9mo ago
> Can you help me understand what's "conservative" about that? It's the gaslighting.