How to Build Research Agents with TDD in Cursor – Insights from Sully

In this Expert Talk, Sully shares the hard-earned lessons from building a production-grade AI research agent at Cognosys.ai and Otto Grid. You'll learn: How to select the right LLM for your use case, tactics used by Cognosys to reduce LLM costs at scale, and how Sully uses a Test Driven Development (TDD) workflow in Cursor to speed up debugging and boost agent quality. This session is packed with practical frameworks, engineering tactics, and real-world takeaways for anyone building or optimizing AI agents.