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Shawn Wang: evaluation

6 Mar 2026 Latent Space Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents

“Yeah I would say, let’s call it a year ago the models weren’t even good enough to do any of this stuff.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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evaluation
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6 Mar 2026
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Yeah. So we’ve had versions of this. This is one of the auto tab lessons where we started that in 2022. [00:08:00] No, in 2023. And at the time it was like browser use, DOM, like all these different things. And I think we ended up very sort of a GI pilled in the sense that just give the model pixels, give it a box, a brain in a box is what you want and you want to remove limitations around context and capabilities such that the bottleneck should be the intelligence. And given how smart models are today, that’s a very far out bottleneck. And so giving it its full VM and having it be onboarded with Devrel X set up like a human would is just been for us internally a really big step change in capability. Yeah I would say, let’s call it a year ago the models weren’t even good enough to do any of this stuff. So even six months ago. Yeah.…

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