#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Cursor Website: https://cursor.com
Cursor on X: https://x.com/cursor_ai
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:25) - Code editor basics
(11:35) - GitHub Copilot
(18:53) - Cursor
(25:20) - Cursor Tab
(31:35) - Code diff
(39:46) - ML details
(45:20) - GPT vs Claude
(51:54) - Prompt engineering
(59:20) - AI agents
(1:13:18) - Running code in background
(1:17:57) - Debugging
(1:23:25) - Dangerous code
(1:34:35) - Branching file systems
(1:37:47) - Scaling challenges
(1:51:58) - Context
(1:57:05) - OpenAI o1
(2:08:27) - Synthetic data
(2:12:14) - RLHF vs RLAIF
(2:14:01) - Fields Medal for AI
(2:16:43) - Scaling laws
(2:25:32) - The future of programming
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with the founding members of the cursor team, Michael Trull, Swaleasif, Arvid Loonmark, and Amman Sanger. |
| 0:10.0 | Curcer is a code editor based on V.S. Code that adds a lot of powerful features for AI assisted |
| 0:16.9 | coding. It has captivated the attention and excitement of the programming and AI communities. So I thought this is an excellent |
| 0:26.0 | opportunity to dive deep into the role of AI in programming. This is a super |
| 0:31.5 | technical conversation that is bigger than just about one code editor. |
| 0:36.4 | It's about the future of programming and in general the future of human AI collaboration |
| 0:41.8 | in designing and engineering, complicated and powerful systems. |
| 0:48.0 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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| 1:07.7 | Also, if you want to get in touch with me for whatever reason, or take a survey or submit questions for an AMA, all of that, |
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| 1:27.0 | This episode is brought to you by Encore. A platform that provides data focused AI tooling for data annotation, |
| 1:35.7 | curation management, and for model evaluation. |
| 1:39.4 | One of the things I love about these guys is they have a great blog that describes cleanly. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean it's technical but it's not too technical but it's sufficiently technical |
| 1:48.8 | to where it's actually describing ideas and not BS. |
| 1:52.2 | Blog posts on on sort of the state of the art, like the |
| 1:56.5 | open AI-01 model that was just released. So sometimes they integrate it into |
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