#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

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Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep447-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.

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EPISODE LINKS: Cursor Website: https://cursor.com Cursor on X: https://x.com/cursor_ai Anysphere Website: https://anysphere.inc/ Aman’s X: https://x.com/amanrsanger Aman’s Website: https://amansanger.com/ Arvid’s X: https://x.com/ArVID220u Arvid’s Website: https://arvid.xyz/ Michael’s Website: https://mntruell.com/ Michael’s LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3zIDkPN Sualeh’s X: https://x.com/sualehasif996 Sualeh’s Website: https://sualehasif.me/

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OUTLINE: (00:00) – Introduction (09:25) – Code editor basics (11:35) – GitHub Copilot (18:53) – Cursor (25:20) – Cursor Tab (31:35) – Code diff (39:46) – ML details (45:20) – GPT vs Claude (51:54) – Prompt engineering (59:20) – AI agents (1:13:18) – Running code in background (1:17:57) – Debugging (1:23:25) – Dangerous code (1:34:35) – Branching file systems (1:37:47) – Scaling challenges (1:51:58) – Context (1:57:05) – OpenAI o1 (2:08:27) – Synthetic data (2:12:14) – RLHF vs RLAIF (2:14:01) – Fields Medal for AI (2:16:43) – Scaling laws (2:25:32) – The future of programming

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