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Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson

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I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take a few weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. I was eating lunch with Roman and Eric at Cursor and we started talking about the cursor.com website. We recently shipped a redesign, and as part of that change, all content and web pages were now built through a headless CMS. We went around the table airing our grievances. The CMS wasn’t working. We had this beautiful new website design and yet it felt more difficult than ever to ship new content. Previously, we could @cursor and ask it to modify the code and content, but now we introduced a new CMS abstraction in between. Everything became a bit more clunky. We went back to clicking through UI menus versus asking agents to do things for us. With AI and coding agents, the cost of an abstraction has never been higher. I asked them: do we really need a CMS? Will people care if they have to use

Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets December 2025 – Lee Robinson I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take 1-2 weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. Content is just code I was eating lunch with Roman and Eric at Cursor and we started talking about the cursor.com website. We recently shipped a redesign, and as part of that change, all content and web pages were now built through a headless CMS. We went around the table airing our grievan

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