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When Agents Have Wallets
Behind the hype, agents are doing real work with real budgets. That changes how products get discovered.
Michael Ludden
Using Cursor IDE with cto.new as Your Background Agent
Connect cto.new via MCP server to offload heavy lifting to a free, world-class coding agent right from your primary, local IDE experience.
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cto.new 2025 Wrapped
It’s been an incredible almost 3 months since we launched. We’re making thousands of PRs every day, we’ve used more than 300 billion frontier model tokens, shipped to over 10,000 codebases, and we’re just getting started.
Michael Ludden
Introducing cto bench: The ground truth code agent benchmark
Most AI benchmarks are built backwards. Someone comes up with a problem set and measures how well agents solve them. The results are interesting, but they usually don’t tell you what matters: how agents perform on real work. That's why we built cto.bench.
Michael Ludden
From Idea to PR: Using cto.new to Plan and Execute Tasks
The article describes how cto.new streamlines development by separating the planning phase from code execution.
Michael Ludden
Working with Background Agents
Practical patterns for effectively delegating work to AI agents like cto.new.
Michael Ludden
How Jeremy King Uses cto.new with GitHub to Supercharge AI Development
Jeremy King is a seasoned software architect who discovered cto.new and transformed from a solo architect into a one-person development powerhouse.
Michael Ludden
How Wequity Uses Linear with cto.new to Accelerate Development
Wequity, a Brussels-based legal tech startup, is transforming how organizations manage ESG compliance using cto.new to accelerate development.
Michael Ludden
Getting Started with cto.new
Beginning with cto.new involves straightforward initial steps. This guide helps newcomers establish their presence on the platform.
Michael Ludden
Why We Raised $5.7M to Launch cto.new Completely for Free
Engine Labs announced a $5.7 million funding round led by Kindred Ventures and PROfounders. The platform launches completely free to all users.
Simon Spurrier
How TriliumNext Revitalized an Abandoned Open Source Project with Dosu's Help
Details how a community fork of an abandoned project evolved into powerful collaboration through AI assistance
Michael Ludden
GitHub Features Dosu in First Awesome Continuous AI List
Dosu featured in GitHub's new Awesome Continuous AI list for triage and documentation sections
Michael Ludden
The Journey Continues...
An end, and a beginning - reflections on an incredible journey at Turso and what comes next.
Michael Ludden
Storytelling is the Key
The story you tell to yourselves, the story you tell to your customers and the story you tell to the market
Michael Ludden
Why You Should Anthropomorphize Your Brand
If that weird AI generated mascot holding a... gun(?) upsets you, that proves the point!
Michael Ludden
You're not competing against who you think you are
You're competing against who your users think you are. Failing to understand and react to this in your pricing, packaging, positioning and product roadmap has doomed many startups to failure.
Michael Ludden
Getting Started with Developer Marketing
This article might scare you off. If not, sorry, you're one of "our kind."
Michael Ludden
We built a brand new Turso web app!
A complete redesign of the Turso dashboard with improved database management, billing, and team features.
Michael Ludden
The libSQL Glow Up
libSQL gets a brand new logo that represents its identity as a fast-growing open source database.
Michael Ludden
Turso Launch Week Accelerates Growth, Nets 1.5k New Users in 7 Days
As cliche as it is, at Turso we are in fact obsessed with user feedback. Our recent Launch Week was a direct result of that.
Michael Ludden
Why we built an Edge benchmarking tool for Turso
A straightforward interactive benchmarking tool using real, live latency data to demonstrate the significant latency differences between centralized cloud databases and Turso at the Edge.
Michael Ludden
The CTO of Triptojapan.com talks about how he made his site snappy and fast
How Trip to Japan achieved sub-100ms latency globally using Cloudflare Workers, Drizzle ORM, and Turso Database.
Michael Ludden
Announcing the Turso Scaler Plan
When we launched Turso six months ago as a private beta, we did so with a commitment to putting user feedback at the center of everything we do.
Michael Ludden