This product by Anysphere has come up 8 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 7 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Dave Plummer, Kevin Rose, Lex Fridman, Michael Truell. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-09-03 and the most recent from 2026-01-31. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490
“I should say I use Composer a lot because one of the benefits it has is that it's fast.”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert: Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author of 'Build a Large Language Model from Scratch' and 'Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch.' Nathan Lambert is the post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and author of a definitive book on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, scaling, open models, China, agents, and AGI.
Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479
“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
The guest here is Dave Plummer: A retired old-school Microsoft software engineer who worked on MS-DOS, Windows 95, NT, and XP, creating the Windows Task Manager, ZIP folder support, and the port of Space Cadet Pinball. He now runs the YouTube channel Dave's Garage and wrote a book about life with autism. Old-school Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer recounts building Windows Task Manager, ZIP support, and Pinball, plus living and working with autism.
The Random Show — Sobriety, Fasting, Home Defense, Vibe Coding, Roblox, and More
“If you're really taking vibe coding seriously, you would be using cursor, not not lovable”— Kevin Rose
The guest here is Kevin Rose: Tech investor and serial founder; partner at True Ventures, co-founder of Digg (now rebooting dig.com with Alexis Ohanian) and the intermittent-fasting app Zero, and creator of the card game Coyote. Tim Ferriss's longtime co-host on The Random Show. 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.
Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471
“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
The guest here is Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet, who grew up in a humble two-room apartment in Chennai, India, with little access to technology. He rose to lead one of the largest companies in human history and championed projects like Chrome before becoming CEO. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai talks AI's future, Gemini, the AI race comeback, robotics, Chrome, and AGI with Lex Fridman.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456
“in a single week recently, switched to VS Code. And then Cursor. And never looked back.”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Volodymyr Zelenskyy: President of Ukraine, leading the country's defense since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. A former comedian and production-studio executive, he won the presidency in 2019 on an anti-corruption platform. Ukraine's President Zelenskyy argues war can only end through strength and real security guarantees, not naive trust in Putin.
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
“I program but I also love programming and I claw 35 through cursor is what I use to assist me in programming”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Dario Amodei (with Amanda Askell and Chris Olah): Dario Amodei is co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude. He is joined by Amanda Askell, a researcher who designs Claude's character and alignment, and Chris Olah, a pioneer of mechanistic interpretability. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, plus Amanda Askell and Chris Olah, on Claude, scaling laws, AGI, AI safety, and interpretability.
Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447
“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
The guest here is Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger (Anysphere / Cursor team): The founding members of Anysphere, makers of Cursor, an AI-assisted code editor built as a fork of VS Code. All four were originally Vim users who started building Cursor after seeing GPT-4's capabilities and believing all of programming would flow through these models. The Cursor founders break down how AI is reshaping programming, from tab-completion and diffs to scaling laws, bug-finding, and the future of coding.
Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
“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
The guest here is Donald Trump: Businessman, former U.S. president, and 2024 Republican presidential nominee. A real estate developer and TV personality turned politician, interviewed here during his campaign against Kamala Harris. Donald Trump talks winning, dealmaking, Ukraine, immigration, the 2020 election, Epstein, and his Truth Social habits with Lex Fridman.
