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Augment Agent: RIP Cursor! NEW Agentic AI IDE!

Channel: WorldofAI Format: YouTube video Published: 2025-04-02 Sponsor: None disclosed (description has affiliate/promo links to Scrimba and Patreon)

Summary

WorldofAI walks through Augment Code’s launch of Augment Agent, an agentic AI pair programmer for VS Code/JetBrains/Neovim/Vim. The headline claim is #1 on SWE-bench Verified at 65.4% by combining Claude 3.7 Sonnet (driver) and OpenAI o1 (assembler) — no proprietary models. Demoed features: persistent memory, large-codebase indexing (39k+ lines), MCP support, visual debugging from screenshots, Next Edit.

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Key Points

  • SWE-bench Verified #1 OSS agent at 65.4% via Claude 3.7 + o1 combo (creator-reported; full pipeline open-sourced, agent itself is hosted)
  • Targets large codebases — claims Cursor’s effective context tops out around 10K tokens; Augment indexes 39k+ line repos via “blazing fast indexing”
  • Persistent memory — learns coding style, remembers past refactors (similar conceptual ground as OpenBrain)
  • MCP-native — plug in APIs, SQL, CLI tools via the standard protocol; Supabase/Figma/Cloudflare cited as examples
  • Visual debugging — drag in screenshots, agent identifies CSS/layout/logic issues and runs only relevant tests
  • Next Edit — predictive next-edit feature for IDE workflows
  • Demo creates a working AI code editor from a single natural-language prompt (demo only — not benchmarked)

Sponsorship & Bias Notes

Sponsor: None formally disclosed. Description includes affiliate links (Scrimba course) and Patreon plug.

Product placement / affiliations: WorldofAI previously made a video on Augment Code; this is a follow-up. The framing “this might be the best open source competitor to cursor” is enthusiastic without independent benchmarks. Treat the SWE-bench number as marketing-adjacent until verified.

Comparison bias: Direct comparison to Cursor and Windsurf in Augment’s favor — creator has covered Cursor previously and tends to frame new tools as Cursor killers. Discount the comparison.

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