Cursor runs unattended for 1+ hours: watching processes and auto-fixing failures
NickPassig · x · 2026-11-15
NickPassig shares a time-saving pattern for generative coding tools: have the agent watch the "process" and take immediate action whenever it stops or changes state.
The insight: tons of dev time goes to waiting on builds and data processing; set Cursor up as a monitor that responds automatically to success/failure. He shows a 1+ hour session with zero keyboard input, where the agent autonomously diagnosed a single-threaded bottleneck, ran parallel resume tasks (21 done, 29 queued, 6 workers in flight), retried failures, finished dedupe → rescore → synthesis, and folded both scorecards into a file.
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