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Michael Truell

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225 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

of vs code that are doing sort of ai type stuff what was the decision like to just fork vs code so the decision to do an editor seemed kind of self-evident to us for at least what we wanted to do and achieve because when we started working on the editor the idea was these models are going to get much better their capabilities are going to improve and it's going to entirely change how you build software both in a you will have big productivity gains but also radical and not like the act of building software is going to change a lot

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

of vs code that are doing sort of ai type stuff what was the decision like to just fork vs code so the decision to do an editor seemed kind of self-evident to us for at least what we wanted to do and achieve because when we started working on the editor the idea was these models are going to get much better their capabilities are going to improve and it's going to entirely change how you build software both in a you will have big productivity gains but also radical and not like the act of building software is going to change a lot

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so you're very limited in the control you have over a code editor if you're a plugin to an existing coding environment. And we didn't want to get locked in by those limitations. We wanted to be able to just build the most useful stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so you're very limited in the control you have over a code editor if you're a plugin to an existing coding environment. And we didn't want to get locked in by those limitations. We wanted to be able to just build the most useful stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so you're very limited in the control you have over a code editor if you're a plugin to an existing coding environment. And we didn't want to get locked in by those limitations. We wanted to be able to just build the most useful stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

What is tab? To highlight and summarize at a high level, I'd say that there are two things that Cursor is pretty good at right now. There are other things that it does. But two things that it helps programmers with. One is this idea of looking over your shoulder and being like a really fast colleague who can kind of jump ahead of you and type and figure out what you're gonna do next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

What is tab? To highlight and summarize at a high level, I'd say that there are two things that Cursor is pretty good at right now. There are other things that it does. But two things that it helps programmers with. One is this idea of looking over your shoulder and being like a really fast colleague who can kind of jump ahead of you and type and figure out what you're gonna do next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

What is tab? To highlight and summarize at a high level, I'd say that there are two things that Cursor is pretty good at right now. There are other things that it does. But two things that it helps programmers with. One is this idea of looking over your shoulder and being like a really fast colleague who can kind of jump ahead of you and type and figure out what you're gonna do next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And that was the original idea behind, that was kind of the kernel of the idea behind a good autocomplete was predicting what you're gonna do next. But you can make that concept even more ambitious by not just predicting the characters after your cursor, but actually predicting the next entire change you're gonna make, the next diff, next place you're gonna jump to.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And that was the original idea behind, that was kind of the kernel of the idea behind a good autocomplete was predicting what you're gonna do next. But you can make that concept even more ambitious by not just predicting the characters after your cursor, but actually predicting the next entire change you're gonna make, the next diff, next place you're gonna jump to.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And that was the original idea behind, that was kind of the kernel of the idea behind a good autocomplete was predicting what you're gonna do next. But you can make that concept even more ambitious by not just predicting the characters after your cursor, but actually predicting the next entire change you're gonna make, the next diff, next place you're gonna jump to.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And the second thing Kirscher is pretty good at right now, too, is helping you sometimes jump ahead of the AI and tell it what to do and go from instructions to code. And on both of those, we've done a lot of work on making the editing experience for those things ergonomic and also making those things smart and fast.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And the second thing Kirscher is pretty good at right now, too, is helping you sometimes jump ahead of the AI and tell it what to do and go from instructions to code. And on both of those, we've done a lot of work on making the editing experience for those things ergonomic and also making those things smart and fast.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And the second thing Kirscher is pretty good at right now, too, is helping you sometimes jump ahead of the AI and tell it what to do and go from instructions to code. And on both of those, we've done a lot of work on making the editing experience for those things ergonomic and also making those things smart and fast.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Yeah, and the magic moment would be if... it is programming is this weird discipline where sometimes the next five minutes, not always, but sometimes the next five minutes, what you're going to do is actually predictable from the stuff you've done recently.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Yeah, and the magic moment would be if... it is programming is this weird discipline where sometimes the next five minutes, not always, but sometimes the next five minutes, what you're going to do is actually predictable from the stuff you've done recently.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Yeah, and the magic moment would be if... it is programming is this weird discipline where sometimes the next five minutes, not always, but sometimes the next five minutes, what you're going to do is actually predictable from the stuff you've done recently.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so can you get to a world where that next five minutes either happens by you disengaging and it taking you through, or maybe a little bit more of just you seeing next step, what it's going to do. And you're like, okay, that's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. And you can just sort of tap, tap, tap through these big changes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so can you get to a world where that next five minutes either happens by you disengaging and it taking you through, or maybe a little bit more of just you seeing next step, what it's going to do. And you're like, okay, that's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. And you can just sort of tap, tap, tap through these big changes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And so can you get to a world where that next five minutes either happens by you disengaging and it taking you through, or maybe a little bit more of just you seeing next step, what it's going to do. And you're like, okay, that's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. And you can just sort of tap, tap, tap through these big changes.