Robinson: Cursor dogfooded automated code reviewer BugBot for a year before launch
Lee Robinson · Cursor AI Agents Work Like 10 Developers (Cursor VP Live Demo) · Sep 2, 2025 · at 11:56
Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Cursor, explains the origins of Cursor's automated code review product BugBot.
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“We used so much internally, just cursor building cursor for almost a year that we decided to actually turn it into a product. And it's called bug bot, and it allows you to do essentially what we just talked about.”
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