Patrick Collison
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Apr
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Um I mean I think the idea of and and maybe this is what cursor becomes.
I think the basic idea of as development environment and not just text editor is really the right idea.
And that's the thing I want to see a return to.
That's the thing that
the list machines had and genera, that's the thing that to some extent Mathematica has.
That's the thing that Smalltalk has.
And I think it's just such a mistake that we have ended up with development environments where there's such a separation between the runtime and the text editing and the um and the environment in which the code I mean yep.
Well
the runtime and the place where the code runs can be the same or different, but but they're kind of three maybe slightly conceptually different things.
Uh and in those three environments they can all coexist in the same place.
And I f like I mean it's still to this day, I use Mathematica a lot, not because I'm doing some particularly arcane, you know, symbolic mathematics, but because it's just a more efficient development environment.
Now, that's gonna be a bit less true with uh LLMs because the Mathematica, you know the uh um
Mathematica does not support support cursor style prompted development.
Um but uh but that that I think is the core idea that that I wish others would borrow.
And VS Code has been a step to some extent, slightly in that direction, but I think we could take it way further and it'd be really I mean the what what I'd love to see, for example, is uh when I hover over a line of code, um I would like to see you know profiling information about
You know, just the runtime characteristics of that code or that function or whatever.
I would like to see logging and error information overlaid.
When I hover over a variable, I would like to see how uh like the most common values that it takes uh uh on in production.
These these kinds of like just rich, deep integrations.
Are you a fan of inventing on principle and and those talks?
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