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Michael Truell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
255 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

So, you know, we were building tools for financial professionals who have to work within a Jupyter notebook or like, you know, playing around with, can you do static analysis with these models? And then the stuff up in GPT-4 felt like, look, that really made concrete the theoretical gains that we had predicted before. Felt like you could build a lot more just immediately at that point in time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

So, you know, we were building tools for financial professionals who have to work within a Jupyter notebook or like, you know, playing around with, can you do static analysis with these models? And then the stuff up in GPT-4 felt like, look, that really made concrete the theoretical gains that we had predicted before. Felt like you could build a lot more just immediately at that point in time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

So, you know, we were building tools for financial professionals who have to work within a Jupyter notebook or like, you know, playing around with, can you do static analysis with these models? And then the stuff up in GPT-4 felt like, look, that really made concrete the theoretical gains that we had predicted before. Felt like you could build a lot more just immediately at that point in time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And also, if we were being consistent, it really felt like this wasn't just going to be a point solution thing. This was going to be all of programming was going to flow through these models. And it felt like that demanded a different type of programming environment, a different type of programming. And so we set off to build that sort of larger vision around that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And also, if we were being consistent, it really felt like this wasn't just going to be a point solution thing. This was going to be all of programming was going to flow through these models. And it felt like that demanded a different type of programming environment, a different type of programming. And so we set off to build that sort of larger vision around that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

And also, if we were being consistent, it really felt like this wasn't just going to be a point solution thing. This was going to be all of programming was going to flow through these models. And it felt like that demanded a different type of programming environment, a different type of programming. And so we set off to build that sort of larger vision around that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Technically incorrect, but one point away. Amon was very enthusiastic about this stuff. Yeah. And before, Amon had this, like, Scaling Laws t-shirt that he would walk around with, where it had the, like- charts and like the formulas on it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Technically incorrect, but one point away. Amon was very enthusiastic about this stuff. Yeah. And before, Amon had this, like, Scaling Laws t-shirt that he would walk around with, where it had the, like- charts and like the formulas on it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI

Technically incorrect, but one point away. Amon was very enthusiastic about this stuff. Yeah. And before, Amon had this, like, Scaling Laws t-shirt that he would walk around with, where it had the, like- charts and like the formulas on it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#447 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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.