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Cursor 0.43 ships background agents and multi-file apply
Background agents let you kick off long-running tasks without blocking your editor — finally. Multi-file apply makes large refactors practical for the first time.
Verdict: Ship-ready for greenfield projects. Careful on legacy codebases with implicit coupling.
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Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with 200K context and improved tool use reliability.
Vercel adds edge middleware caching — static-like performance for dynamic routes.
Neon branches now support point-in-time restore down to the second.
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Developers using AI-assisted coding report 55% faster first-draft velocity but only 12% faster time-to-production. The bottleneck is review, not writing. — Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025
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