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

Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.
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*Transcript:*
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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:*
0:00 - Introduction
0:59 - Code editor basics
3:09 - GitHub Copilot
10:27 - Cursor
16:54 - Cursor Tab
23:08 - Code diff
31:20 - ML details
36:54 - GPT vs Claude
43:28 - Prompt engineering
50:54 - AI agents
1:04:51 - Running code in background
1:09:31 - Debugging
1:14:58 - Dangerous code
1:26:09 - Branching file systems
1:29:20 - Scaling challenges
1:43:32 - Context
1:48:39 - OpenAI o1
2:00:01 - Synthetic data
2:03:48 - RLHF vs RLAIF
2:05:34 - Fields Medal for AI
2:08:17 - Scaling laws
2:17:06 - The future of programming

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