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Lex Fridman · 2024-10-06

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic

“net best is Sonnet”
“and kind of coding capabilities the one that I'd say right now is just kind of net best is Sonnet”— Aman Sanger
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon

“AWS is just really really good”
“AWS is just really really good it's really good like whenever you use an AWS product you just know that it's going to work”— Arvid Lunnemark

The guest's own work

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Cursor

Anysphere (inferred)

“first up big ridiculous question what's the point of a code editor so the code editor is largely the place where you build software”— Michael Truell

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub

“it was around the time that Copilot came out so 2021 that I really wanted to try it so I went into VS Code”— Sualeh Asif
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GPT-4

OpenAI

“the next big moment where everything kind of clicked together was actually getting early access to GPT-4 so sort of end of 2022”— Michael Truell
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OpenAI o1

OpenAI

“we made o1 available in cursor because like we were when we got the model we were really interested in trying it out”— Michael Truell