I’ve been following Cursor pretty closely since it started picking up steam, and the updates they dropped this past week are genuinely impressive. We’re not talking about incremental improvements here — [Cloud Agents](https://cursor.com/blog/agent-computer-use) and [Bugbot Autofix](https://cursor.com/blog/bugbot-autofix) represent a serious shift in how AI-assisted coding actually works day to day.
So what’s the big deal? Cloud Agents now run on their own isolated VMs. That means each agent gets a full development environment — it’s not fighting for resources on your laptop anymore. You can spin up 10 to 20 of these things running in parallel, each one writing code, testing it, opening a browser, clicking through your UI, and verifying that everything actually works. When something breaks, the agent fixes it and tries again. And here’s the kicker: it records the whole process. You get videos, screenshots, and logs alongside a merge-ready PR. As Alexi Robbins, co-head of engineering for async agents at Cursor, [told CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/cursor-announces-major-update-as-ai-coding-agent-battle-heats-up.html): “Instead of having one to three things that you’re doing at once, you can have 10 or 20 of these things running.”
The numbers back it up too. Cursor says 35% of their own internal PRs are now generated by Cloud Agents. That’s not a marketing slide — that’s their actual workflow.
Then there’s [Bugbot Autofix](https://cursor.com/bugbot), which just hit general availability on February 26th. It scans your PRs for bugs and spawns its own cloud agent to propose fixes right there on your PR. The resolution rate jumped from 52% to 76% over the past six months, and over 35% of Autofix suggestions actually get merged. Those aren’t vanity metrics — that’s real developer time saved on every code review cycle.
The timing makes sense. With a [$29.3 billion valuation](https://techstartups.com/2026/02/25/cursor-upgrades-ai-coding-agents-as-29-3b-startup-battles-anthropic-openai-and-microsoft/) and over $1 billion in annualized revenue, Cursor is clearly betting big on agents that don’t just suggest code but actually ship it. The coverage from [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/cursor-announces-major-update-as-ai-coding-agent-battle-heats-up.html) and [DevOps.com](https://devops.com/cursor-cloud-agents-get-their-own-computers-and-35-of-internal-prs-to-prove-it/) shows how much attention this is getting, and the developer community on Reddit and [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/cursor) has been buzzing about it all week.
If you’re writing code professionally and haven’t tried the latest Cursor update, it’s worth a look. The gap between “AI that helps you code” and “AI that codes alongside you” just got a lot smaller.

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