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How Cursor Turned AI Agents Into Better Engineers

Hosted by Lauren Tan and Colin Matthews

Wed, Aug 12, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Become an AI-Native Builder
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What you'll learn

Why AI agents behave like talented but forgetful new hires

How to set up your agent for success with engineering use cases

The skills and workflows Cursor engineers rely on daily

How skills like /architect and /tdd improve engineering

Live examples of turning messy tasks into reliable workflows

Practical techniques for building your own engineering team's AI operating system

Why this topic matters

AI agents are powerful, but they're forgetful, inconsistent, and prone to making the same mistakes over and over. In this workshop, Lauren will share the engineering skills framework used internally at Cursor and now open sourced as pstack. You'll learn how to equip AI with reusable playbooks, decision-making frameworks, review processes, and debugging workflows that improve output quality.

You'll learn from

Lauren Tan

Member of Technical Staff at Cursor


Colin Matthews

Head of Education, Lenny's Newsletter

I'm a technical PM and builder who has taught more than 40k PMs, designers, and tech professionals the fundamentals of shipping software. I've been featured by Lenny four times, spoken at product conferences and events, and assisted Fortune 500 companies with technical upskilling and AI adoption.


My main goal with any course is to help you build your own mental model of how a technology or system works. Because of how fast the industry is changing, I think its more valuable to understand something from first principles than it is to learn a specific tool or product.

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