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Let's talk first about an update to Cursor, and then we'll talk about how this is all playing out.

Cursor has introduced Plan Mode, allowing their coding agents to create plans, conduct research, and work for longer.

Plan Mode gives the model new tools to create and update plans, as well as an interactive editor to modify plans in line.

The way that it works is basically when you prompt the agent to create a plan, Cursor then goes and researches the code base to find anything that it needs to execute that plan.

Looks through relevant files, finds review docs, asks clarifying questions, and then ultimately, when you are happy with the plan, it memorializes it in a markdown file that you can then edit directly.

The company said that plan mode had significantly improved code generation in their testing.

AI educator Kevin Kern posted, the new plan mode in Cursor is well thought out.

It builds on the existing task lists, showing they iterate on what's already there and bring features together instead of shipping separate ones.

I like that approach.

Investor Charles Williamson writes, the more I use plan mode in Cursor, the more I realize how much attention to detail went into it.

So good.

Now, generally, this new feature showcases a huge emerging theme that context is king when it comes to advanced AI use.

Planning basically allows the agent to work with the user to build and refine that context before it gets to work.

Now, another growing theme around AI coding is that these tools are much more capable in production now.

In the first half of the year, it was surprising to many to hear that tech giants were already using AI to generate up to 30% of their code.

Yet it wasn't all that surprising to anyone that at OpenAI Dev Day this week, Sam Altman said that almost all new code written at OpenAI today is written by Codex users.

Still, even with all that, it was big when Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, the biggest company in the world, dropped this little nugget on CNBC.

100%.

Perhaps this is why there is increasingly a push to drop the vibe from vibe coding.

Turns out this is just coding now.