Building your own software factory — Eric Zakariasson, Cursor

Most of us are pair-programming with one agent and stopping there. There's a lot more on the table. This workshop is about going from one agent to many. We'll start with codebase setup, the foundational work that makes agents effective on their own. Then we'll scale up to running agents in parallel, kicking off async work that keeps going while you context-switch to something else, and setting up automations for the things you're still doing by hand. Speaker info: https://x.com/ericzakariasson   / ericzakariasson   https://github.com/ericzakariasson Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Workshop introduction and vision for autonomous software factories 0:01:26 - Frameworks and stages of agentic autonomy 0:08:58 - Establishing scalable, reproducible dev environments for agents 0:10:00 - Importance of verifiable systems and automated testing pipelines 0:10:47 - Cursor 3 walkthrough: Redesigned agent-first interface 0:15:26 - Cloud agents: Scaling via dedicated VMs and computer control 0:19:17 - Managing asynchronous workflows and frontloading context 0:24:45 - Automating repetitive tasks to build feedback loops 0:29:28 - Continual learning: Extracting rules from chat transcripts 0:30:48 - Scaling management: Moving to nested agent orchestration 0:31:08 - Strategic takeaways: Human accountability and observability 0:33:39 - Q&A: Addressing code quality and architectural guardrails 0:53:07 - Best practices for human-to-agent collaboration and handoffs 1:03:05 - Maintaining the factory: Managing documentation and specs 1:10:06 - Integrating Linear and Slack for automated issue triage 1:14:14 - Local execution: Leveraging Cursor harness locally --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/rnDm57Py54A... Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): AIE New York, October 12–14 — the first AI Engineer Finance mainstage summit AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---