- Cursor Live Apps: prompt to hosted app, database and auth included. Watch (source-based).
- Perplexity Teammates: long-running agents with memory, Max-tier only. Watch.
- AWS Web Answer: cited web answers in one MCP call. Watch.
- Plus: Claude Code and Codex both got better at running unsupervised.
Cursor builds the app, then ships it too
Every developer has a graveyard. It’s called localhost:3000, and it’s where perfectly good side projects go to die because “I’ll deploy it this weekend” is the most-broken promise in tech.
On Nov. 5, Cursor tried to close the cemetery. Its new Live Apps feature lets you describe an app and a cloud agent handles the rest: it builds the app, sets up a database, configures auth, and deploys it to a link you can share.
The fine print: it runs on cloud agents only (not locally), and before anything goes live, four deterministic checks block secrets in app files, credential files, .env files and source maps, per AI Dev Pulse’s read of the docs. Nothing publishes until you click publish.
A day later Cursor added voice chat with agents, so you can now literally tell your code what to do. Your coworkers will love that.
Zoom out: the bottleneck in AI building quietly moved from “writing code” to “getting it in front of people.” Whoever owns the last mile, deploy, auth, data, owns the habit.
Our verdict: Watch. Our source-based verdict is Watch: access and deployment constraints still matter for our readers. This is not a hands-on test claim. When you’re ready, pick one internal tool you’ve been meaning to build, a dashboard or an intake form, and see whether it survives contact with a real teammate.
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Perplexity hires you some teammates
Perplexity launched Teammates, personal agents built for the work that takes days, not prompts. They plan a project, check results along the way, and bring finished work back for review. They also remember project goals, task history and shared files across runs, so Tuesday’s agent knows what Monday’s agent did.
Each teammate runs in its own environment with separate browser sessions, and you can jump in and take over anytime. It’s on the web now, iOS soon, for Perplexity Max subscribers.
Our verdict: Watch. Memory across runs is the right idea. A top-tier paywall and zero independent reviews (it’s day one) mean you shouldn’t move real work over yet.
AWS will now just give you the answer
On Nov. 5 AWS made Web Answer on Bedrock AgentCore generally available. Your agent asks a question; it gets back a synthesized, cited answer in one tool call. Web Answer plans its own searches, runs several in parallel, and decides when it has enough. You can set allow and deny lists for domains plus publish-date filters, and it’s called over MCP.
The catch: US East (N. Virginia) only, priced per tool call. Watch, unless you’re already all-in on AWS, in which case it’s a Use.
permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting, so unattended runs stop hanging on a prompt nobody's awake to click. Changelogcodex agents) that marks unread results across several agents. Tab overload, but for robots. Vibe Coding ReportShip one thing before Monday. Take a spreadsheet your team updates by hand, ask a cloud agent to turn it into a tiny web form plus a table view, and share the link with one person. Measure one thing: did they use it without asking you how? Reply and tell us what broke. The best answers make Tuesday’s issue.
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