Cursor runs as an agent-native IDE: it plans multi-step changes, edits across files, executes terminal commands, and verifies its own output before surfacing a diff for your review. Cloud agents operate in parallel on their own compute, so you can queue a feature build and a bug fix simultaneously without blocking your local machine. The vendor describes autonomous PR review via Bugbot and scheduled automations that run without a developer actively supervising. The ceiling appears on genuinely ambiguous architectural decisions — the agent will produce code, but it will produce confident-looking code that encodes your ambiguity rather than surfacing it. Teams doing greenfield work move fast; teams inheriting undocumented legacy systems report more time spent correcting agent assumptions than writing code.