--- title: Joining Cursor | daily.dev description: 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... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Joining Cursor | daily.dev og:description: 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... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0k73Rpnf0.png og:image:alt: Joining Cursor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Joining Cursor **[Fatih Arslan](https://daily.dev/sources/arslan-io)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What are Cloud Agents in Cursor and how do they change developer workflows? Cloud Agents are agents running in a sandboxed environment, each acting as a dedicated, separated work unit rather than sharing a single codebase bottleneck. This lets developers enable MCPs so agents can safely make changes and observe their environment, increasing throughput while keeping the workflow secure for the people using the agents. _Developers weighing agent-based workflows can follow how tools like Cursor's cloud agents evolve via daily.dev._ ### What is Cursor Origin and why was it built? Origin is a distributed Git storage system built by and for AI agents, announced at Cursor's Compile conference. It was created because existing tools like GitHub were not designed for agent-driven work: the review process, merge queue, and overall workflow assume human-paced collaboration rather than the throughput of many concurrent coding agents. _Anyone tracking new git infrastructure for agent workflows can keep tabs on projects like Origin through daily.dev._ ### What did Cursor 3 (Glass) change about the coding experience? Cursor 3, also known as Glass, redesigned the development environment so that agents, rather than the code itself, are the center of the experience. Instead of writing code directly, developers spend their time planning, debating, implementing, and reviewing work alongside agents across Cursor's Mac, Web, iOS, and iPad apps. _Developers rethinking their editor setup around agents can track releases like Cursor 3 on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cursor’s $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default](https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-s-2-billion-bet-the-ide-is-now-a-fallback-not-the-default-gsq26ueqa) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Elastic and Cursor partner to accelerate context engineering with coding agents](https://daily.dev/posts/elastic-and-cursor-partner-to-accelerate-context-engineering-with-coding-agents-6dddpoycp) · elastic · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Box chooses Cursor for enterprise-grade quality, security, and control · Cursor](https://daily.dev/posts/box-chooses-cursor-for-enterprise-grade-quality-security-and-control-cursor-ieda7sffj) · Cursor · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Cursor acquired Firetiger. A month later, Cursor launched a bot that tracks code changes through to production.](https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-acquired-firetiger-a-month-later-cursor-launched-a-bot-that-tracks-code-changes-through-to--tt13xclmy) · The New Stack · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Joining Cursor","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0"},"datePublished":"2026-08-10T18:05:27.505Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:06:53.732Z","description":"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...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a16a427fcd802df17febd996571a5113?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a16a427fcd802df17febd996571a5113?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Fatih Arslan","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Fatih Arslan","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/arslan-io"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"cloud,devtools,ai-agents,distributed-systems","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fatih Arslan","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/arslan-io"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Joining Cursor"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/joining-cursor-0k73rpnf0#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What are Cloud Agents in Cursor and how do they change developer workflows?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Cloud Agents are agents running in a sandboxed environment, each acting as a dedicated, separated work unit rather than sharing a single codebase bottleneck. 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