Faire doubles PR throughput with Cursor Cloud Agents

This post details how Faire leveraged Cursor's cloud agents to double their weekly PR throughput and condense an 18-month migration to a single engineer. It highlights the benefits of cloud agents for scaled parallelization and autonomy, contrasting them with local agent limitations. Faire's adoption involved replacing an in-house system (Samurai) with Cursor for its deployment flexibility, GitHub integration, reliability, and UX. The post also showcases how Cursor's agent-led onboarding and Dockerfile support simplify complex development environment setup for agents, enabling them to operate like engineers. Specific use cases like design system translation, Slack integration for bug triaging, and automated PR routing are discussed. Furthermore, Faire's use of Cursor Automations for over 2,000 autonomous runs per week is detailed, including bug triage, PR auto-healing, and PR routing. The post also describes the 'Swarm' system built on Cursor for automating legacy migrations, reducing manual work significantly. Finally, it illustrates how cloud agents were used to stand up build previews in less than a day, transforming a multi-week project into a sub-day effort.