Fatih Arslan, a longtime developer tooling and distributed systems engineer, announces he is leaving PlanetScale after 5.5 years to join Cursor to work on Cloud Agents. He explains his reasoning: Cursor's willingness to reinvent its product, its agent-first vision with Cloud Agents, Automations, the Origin distributed Git storage, and Cursor 3 (Glass). He also notes Cursor is expected to become part of SpaceX, which he sees as an opportunity for Cursor's product quality to meet SpaceX's scale.
Questions this post answers
What is Cursor's Origin project?
Origin is a distributed Git storage system built by Cursor, designed specifically for agents rather than humans. It was announced at Cursor's Compile conference. The premise is that GitHub's existing workflow — review process, merge queue, and collaboration model — was built for a previous era and is not suited for agent-driven development, so a new paradigm is needed. Developers rethinking their Git workflows for agent-driven development follow these shifts on daily.dev.
What are Cursor Automations and how do they work?
Cursor Automations let agents run automatically based on configured triggers, rather than requiring a human to manually start and stop each session. Before Automations, agent harnesses had to be initiated by a user and would stop without intervention. Automations enable a continuous factory-like workflow where agents can work on a codebase without constant human initiation. Teams evaluating how to run agents continuously in their codebases track tool developments like this on daily.dev.