Notes on Cursor 2.0 and a pelican drawn by their brand new Composer-1 coding model, which they describe as "4x faster than similarly intelligent models" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/

And it's not just Cursor... rival agentic coding IDE Windsurf announced their own custom RL-trained fast coding model today as well!

Here are notes and a pelican on Windsurf's new SWE-1.5 model simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/

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@simon I would bet the Anthropic API bill played a large role in the decision to train both models...
The bicycles are pretty good when compared to the previous Gen still! I notice a lack of spokes though 😁

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