Benchling cuts migration time by 75% with cloud agents

Emily Reed, Developer Productivity Software Engineer at Benchling, shares how her team used Cursor to lift a complex local development environment into the cloud, cut down manual setup, and take on a large-scale test migration that had been slowing a major React upgrade. Instead of asking teams to migrate thousands of legacy Enzyme tests one by one, Benchling orchestrated hundreds of agents in parallel and brought the timeline down from one year to one quarter. Today, about 30% of Benchling’s merged pull requests come from cloud agents. After rolling them out, Benchling saw a 20% jump in de