The Deep Dive

The internet is losing its mind over Cursor’s new experiment. The headline is that a swarm of GPT-5.2 agents built a web browser from scratch in a week. The stats look impressive: over 1,000 files and millions of lines of code. Ignore the metrics. They are vanity. If you look past the hype, you realise this isn't about the code. It is about how we manage the chaos. It was not built from scratc...

What happens when you drop 1,000 autonomous AI agents into a Minecraft server and leave them alone? They don't just punch trees; they build a functioning civilisation. In this episode of Engineering Intelligence , hosts Alex and Jamie dive headfirst into Altera's groundbreaking "Project Sid." We explore the fascinating spontaneous emergence of a complex digital society where agents naturally drift...