#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

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
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https://lexfridman.com/cursor-team-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback
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get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact 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/ SPONSORS: To support this podcast, check out
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Go to https://drinkag1.com/lex 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 PODCAST LINKS: - Podcast
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