Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted programming.

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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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