Move your website off a content system into plain code
Cursor's Lee Robinson used agents to move cursor.com off its website-editing system; the event page says it took 3 days and $260, with no downtime.
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What they did
Lee Robinson, a Cursor executive, used agents in Cursor to move cursor.com off its content-editing system and into plain code. According to the event page, AI wrote a full plan first. Agents exported and reshaped the content and checked pages in a browser to match the designs exactly. Several helper agents worked at once, and an automatic review tool checked changes for new bugs.
How it went
The event page says the move took 3 days, 344 agent requests and 297M tokens (units of AI text), and cost $260. It produced 67 saved changes across 1023 files with no site downtime, saving weeks off the expected timeline.
Try it yourself with Cursor
I want to move my website in [repo URL] off [CMS name] so all content lives in the repo as Markdown and code. First write a detailed implementation plan: how to export the content, the new file structure, which pages change, and how to check each page matches the current design. Wait for my approval. Then export and convert the content, rebuild the pages, and compare them in the browser against the live site. Split independent pages into parallel tasks. Commit in small steps and do not deploy or remove the CMS until I approve.
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Source: Cursor event page (Luma) · Lee Robinson
Written with AI assistance from the original post and checked against our editorial guidelines. Results are as reported by the source, not independently verified.
