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Aman Sanger

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

Yeah, I mean, I think this is a space that is quite interesting, perhaps quite unique, where if you look at previous tech waves, maybe there's kind of one major thing that happened and it unlocked a new wave of companies.

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

But every single year, every single model capability or jump you get in model capabilities, you now unlock this new wave of features, things that are possible, especially in programming. And so I think in AI programming, being even just a few months ahead, let alone a year ahead, makes your product much, much, much more useful.

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

But every single year, every single model capability or jump you get in model capabilities, you now unlock this new wave of features, things that are possible, especially in programming. And so I think in AI programming, being even just a few months ahead, let alone a year ahead, makes your product much, much, much more useful.

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

But every single year, every single model capability or jump you get in model capabilities, you now unlock this new wave of features, things that are possible, especially in programming. And so I think in AI programming, being even just a few months ahead, let alone a year ahead, makes your product much, much, much more useful.

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

I think the cursor a year from now will need to make the cursor of today look obsolete. And I think, you know, Microsoft has done a number of like fantastic things, but I don't think they're in a great place to really keep innovating and pushing on this in the way that a startup can. Just rapidly implementing features.

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

I think the cursor a year from now will need to make the cursor of today look obsolete. And I think, you know, Microsoft has done a number of like fantastic things, but I don't think they're in a great place to really keep innovating and pushing on this in the way that a startup can. Just rapidly implementing features.

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

I think the cursor a year from now will need to make the cursor of today look obsolete. And I think, you know, Microsoft has done a number of like fantastic things, but I don't think they're in a great place to really keep innovating and pushing on this in the way that a startup can. Just rapidly implementing features.

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

And kind of doing the research experimentation necessary to really push the ceiling.

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

And kind of doing the research experimentation necessary to really push the ceiling.

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

And kind of doing the research experimentation necessary to really push the ceiling.

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

Often the same person even.

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

Often the same person even.

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

Often the same person even.

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

There's this interesting thing where if you look at language model loss on different domains, I believe the bits per byte, which is kind of character normalized loss for code is lower than language, which means in general, there are a lot of tokens in code that are super predictable, a lot of characters that are super predictable.

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

There's this interesting thing where if you look at language model loss on different domains, I believe the bits per byte, which is kind of character normalized loss for code is lower than language, which means in general, there are a lot of tokens in code that are super predictable, a lot of characters that are super predictable.

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

There's this interesting thing where if you look at language model loss on different domains, I believe the bits per byte, which is kind of character normalized loss for code is lower than language, which means in general, there are a lot of tokens in code that are super predictable, a lot of characters that are super predictable.

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

And this is, I think, even magnified when you're not just trying to autocomplete code, but predicting what the user is going to do next in their editing of existing code. And so, you know, the goal of cursor taps, let's eliminate all the low entropy actions you take inside of the editor. When the intent is effectively determined, let's just jump you forward in time, skip you forward.

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

And this is, I think, even magnified when you're not just trying to autocomplete code, but predicting what the user is going to do next in their editing of existing code. And so, you know, the goal of cursor taps, let's eliminate all the low entropy actions you take inside of the editor. When the intent is effectively determined, let's just jump you forward in time, skip you forward.

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

And this is, I think, even magnified when you're not just trying to autocomplete code, but predicting what the user is going to do next in their editing of existing code. And so, you know, the goal of cursor taps, let's eliminate all the low entropy actions you take inside of the editor. When the intent is effectively determined, let's just jump you forward in time, skip you forward.

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

Yeah. I think I can speak to a few of the details on how to make these things work. They're incredibly low latency, so you need to train small models on this task. In particular... they're incredibly pre-filled token hungry. What that means is they have these really, really long prompts where they see a lot of your code and they're not actually generating that many tokens.