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Cursor's agent swarm suggests cheaper models can handle most coding when frontier models plan the work

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Cursor's agent swarm suggests cheaper models can handle most coding when frontier models plan the work

The Decoder · Jul 26, 2026, 3:09 PM UTC

Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which separates planners from workers, eventually scored 100 percent on the test suite. The old swarm choked on merge conflicts of its own making.…