Cursor Compile London: Six Talks on Working With Agents

At Cursor Compile London on 16 September 2026, the talks kept returning to the people working around the agents: someone learning a new workflow, a colleague trying to understand a change, a reviewer with more code arriving than time to read it.

The chalk talks made those questions concrete. David Gomes drew how agents move between worktrees. Murali Suriar drew networks. Pablo Santos Luaces went back to a few lines of text and the history needed to merge them. These are my notes and photographs from the six sessions, including the Grok Bot workshop where I used bots to capture the talks and work from the same notebook.

Note

Cursor Compile London Series

Attendees outside the entrance to Cursor Compile London — Arriving at Compile London, 16 September 2026.

Sessions

Session	Speaker	Notes
AI Deployments at Scale	Pauline Brunet	Use-case selection, production ownership, evaluations, and permissions
Git worktrees	David Gomes	Setup, agent-created checkouts, directory tracking, and cleanup
Diagrams	Murali Suriar	Network views, request paths, configuration distribution, and shared understanding
File merges	Pablo Santos Luaces	Two-way comparison, three-way merge, merge bases, and performance
Code review	Tomas Reimers	Validation, change management, alignment, and output review
Grok Bot workshop	Jet Semrick	Context, connectors, persistent environments, and recurring work

The published programme lists Lauren Tan in the 14:30 slot. My stage photographs and notes record Tomas Reimers speaking about review. His article follows the session captured in those notes.

Grokpresso

A cup of coffee with a Grok Bot face in the foam at Cursor Compile London — Grokpresso at Compile London. The bot even made it onto the coffee.

Among the whiteboard photos and screenshots, I also came home with this one: a Grok Bot face in the coffee foam.

Year in Code

Compile lobby display showing 4.87 billion tokens for Emre Cavunt — My Year in code display in the Compile lobby.

The lobby display put numbers on my own time using Cursor. The headline was 4.87 billion tokens, but the active days and streak tell a more recognisable story: I use it in bursts.

The display recorded:

Joined Cursor: 3 September 2024.
Days since joining: 743.
Tokens: 4.87 billion.
Conversations: 1,027.
Active days: 45.
Best streak: 11 days.
Peak day: 2 September, with 132 chats.

The Evening Event

Google DeepMind × London AI Hub was a separate event that evening. The article covers Ivan Leo's session on the Interactions API, video tools, and managed agents.