Cursor's Sualeh Asif explains that cloud agents can't 'complain' about errors the way local agents can, so Cursor built a system where agents give periodic 'confessions' that get routed to the infra team. ✦ AI generated
Sualeh Asif · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-06-30 · original ↗
Agents in the cloud don't have a way to "complain." With running an agent locally, when it gets warnings or errors, it surfaces them to a human in its response, who instructs it to do X or Y. However, there's no such loop for a long-running task on the cloud!
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