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Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by embedding-shape on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:37AM (#46630256)
> It's impressive that they got such a big project to be built by agents and to compile

But that's the thing, it doesn't compile, has a ton of errors, CI seems broken since long... What exactly is supposed to impressive here, that it managed to generate a bunch of code that doesn't even compile?

What in the holy hackers is this even about? Am I missing something obvious here? How is this news?

Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by underdeserver on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:24AM (#46630594)
Looks like it doesn't compile for at least one other guy (I myself haven't tried): https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/issues/98

Yeah, answers need to be given.

Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by snek_case on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:27AM (#46632991)
Cursor is in the business of selling you more tokens, so it makes sense that they would exaggerate the capabilities of their models, and even advertise it being used to produce lots of code over weeks. This would probably cost you thousands in API usage fees.
Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by askl on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:56AM (#46630388)
> What in the holy hackers is this even about? Am I missing something obvious here?

It's about hyping up cursor and writing a blog post. You're not supposed to look at or use the code, obviously.