Cursor came up with a genuine on-air endorsement 7 times across the episodes we processed. This page collects every one of those moments: who said it, what they said, and the exact point in the episode.
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, has seven mentions across Lex Fridman and Tim Ferriss, both shows with heavy overlap in tech and engineering guests.
We tracked down every recommendation with its exact quote and timestamp. Given how fast AI coding tools change, this is a useful snapshot of which one two very different interviewers were actually using at the time.
“I should say I use Composer a lot because one of the benefits it has is that it's fast.” — Lex Fridman 03:39:17
Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, scaling, open models, China, agents, and AGI.
“Yeah, I've done a ton of it for the Python side... I found it very helpful because I've learned a lot from watching the code that it generates” — Dave Plummer 00:44:53
Old-school Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer recounts building Windows Task Manager, ZIP support, and Pinball, plus living and working with autism.
“If you're really taking vibe coding seriously, you would be using cursor, not not lovable” — Kevin Rose 01:35:11
Kevin Rose hits 100 days sober as he and Tim Ferriss trade hacks on fasting, ketones, home defense, vibe coding, and the AI-driven future of trust.
“I've been using cursor a lot as as a way to program with Gemini and other models is like it. One of its powerful things is it's aware of the entire codebase” — Lex Fridman 01:35:27
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai talks AI's future, Gemini, the AI race comeback, robotics, Chrome, and AGI with Lex Fridman.
“in a single week recently, switched to VS Code. And then Cursor. And never looked back.” — Lex Fridman 03:04:11
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy argues war can only end through strength and real security guarantees, not naive trust in Putin.
“I program but I also love programming and I claw 35 through cursor is what I use to assist me in programming” — Lex Fridman 00:33:51
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, plus Amanda Askell and Chris Olah, on Claude, scaling laws, AGI, AI safety, and interpretability.
“Cursor is this editor that's based on Vs Code that leans heavily on LLMs... So what I would advise and what I'm trying to do myself is to learn how to use it” — Lex Fridman 00:57:21
Donald Trump talks winning, dealmaking, Ukraine, immigration, the 2020 election, Epstein, and his Truth Social habits with Lex Fridman.
