Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Local agents hit a ceiling — they compete for your machine's resources, can't verify their own work, and bottleneck at one or two tasks at a time. Jonas Nelle and Alexi Robbins, co-heads of engineering for Cursor's async agents, share how they gave each agent its own isolated VM so agents can write code, spin up browsers, test their own changes, and deliver merge-ready PRs in parallel — now behind 30%+ of Cursor's internal merged PRs.
Details
City
San Francisco
Date
May 6, 2026
Time
04:50PM – 05:20PM
Speakers
Jonas Nelle
Cursor
Alexi Robbins
Cursor
Agenda
Demos and office hours run all day. Drop by between sessions. All times in Pacific Time (PT).
08:00AM – 09:00AM
Check in and breakfast
09:00AM – 10:00AM
Opening keynote
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Ami Vora
Dianne Penn
Angela Jiang
Katelyn Lesse
Cat Wu
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:30AM – 11:00AM
10:30AM – 11:15AM
11:15AM – 11:45AM
11:30AM – 12:15PM
12:00PM – 12:30PM
The AI-native engineer: How Netflix moves engineers up the Claude Code maturity ladder
Claude Code
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Eric Wendelin
12:30PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:30PM – 01:15PM
01:30PM – 02:15PM
01:50PM – 02:20PM
02:30PM – 03:15PM
From code to orchestration: building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Kazuya Iwami
02:35PM – 03:05PM
Building AI-native: Inside the stacks powering Harvey, Gamma, and Cognition
Claude Platform
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Niko Grupen
Deeni Fatiha
Walden Yan
03:20PM – 03:50PM
03:30PM – 04:15PM
04:05PM – 04:35PM
04:30PM – 05:15PM
Build AI Agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Madoka Chiyoda
Yoshio Terada
04:50PM – 05:20PM
Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Claude Platform
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Jonas Nelle
Alexi Robbins
05:30PM – 06:15PM
05:35PM – 06:05PM
Evening
06:00PM – 08:00PM
Evening reception
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