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Cloud coding agents shift from pair programming to autonomous hires
A developer testing Cursor's Cloud Agent on a monorepo found it operated autonomously, cloning repos, running tests, and opening PRs without local context. Local reasoning and tool auth did not carry over, requiring separate setup. The agent felt like hiring an engineer, needing a brief and definition of done rather than shared context.
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This hands-on account highlights a real shift in developer workflows, but it's one data point—autonomy gains come with context loss that may not suit all tasks.
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