The four flow layers

Intent: requirements, tickets, designs, acceptance criteria. The 'what' and the 'why.'

Cursor impact: pulls Jira/Linear context into the change and keeps the implementation tied to what was asked for.

The build: writing, refactoring, testing, reviewing code. The dense core of the day.

Cursor impact: home turf. Context-aware edits, agents, tests, BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. pre-merge review. The biggest velocity gains live here.

Shipping: CI/CDContinuous Integration / Continuous Delivery. The automated pipeline that builds, tests and ships code so changes reach production safely and often. Press Enter for the full definition., build and test gates, environment promotion, change approval (CABChange Advisory Board. A group that reviews and signs off on higher-risk production changes before they ship. Press Enter for the full definition.), feature flags.

Cursor impact: generate and maintain pipeline config and IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition., plus the evidence that the gates were satisfied.

Running it: monitoring, incidents, on-call, rollbacks, postmortems.

Cursor impact: triage from logs and traces, draft a fix against an incident, generate runbooks and a postmortem first draft.