July 22, 2025

Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents

Episode 2: Cursor Background Agents
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🎧 Before the Commit – Episode 2

The Future of Coding Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here.

In this episode, we dive into the cutting edge of agent-powered development with Cursor’s new background agents — are we on the verge of coding without ever opening an IDE? Can AI truly handle the dev work while you're at a baseball game?

We explore how top tools like Grok 4 and Claude are changing the game, discuss a wild experiment where an entire company was staffed by LLMs, and unpack OpenAI’s quiet pivot into custom software services.

We also tackle a real-world threat model: prompt injection via context poisoning — how attackers could use AI’s own superpowers against it.

And we ask the big questions:

  • Are developers becoming managers of agents?

  • Is search dead?

  • Can you really trust AI with your codebase — or your business?

If you're curious about where software, security, and AI are heading next — and how to stay ahead of the curve — this is one episode you don’t want to miss.