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Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: “ Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming.” “It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English.” “You can imagine kind... show more

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"The one thing that's going to be truly future proof is judgment. What is the biggest challenge when you have a thousand AI engineers writing code? AI slop. In an era when you can do everything, the question is which of these things matter. On the engineer side, it is evaluating the code. Which of this code is even valuable? You can have AI engineers writing beautiful code that could be wrong, that could have bugs in it, that could be vulnerable. Someone needs to review it. Make sure to have a human review at some point, especially critical code that is in the core of your system. On the product side is judgment around what needs to be built and evaluating. And similarly in design, you have to have judgment around, does it make sense in the broader design system. I think this judgment is the number one thing that humans are going to bring in an era of infinite productivity."

"The one thing that's going to be truly future proof is judgment. What is the biggest challenge when you have a thousand AI engineers writing code? AI slop. In an era when you can do everything, the question is which of these things matter. On the engineer side, it is evaluating the code. Which of this code is even valuable? You can have AI engineers writing beautiful code that could be wrong, that could have bugs in it, that could be vulnerable. Someone needs to review it. Make sure to have a human review at some point, especially critical code that is in the core of your system. On the product side is judgment around what needs to be built and evaluating. And similarly in design, you have to have judgment around, does it make sense in the broader design system. I think this judgment is the number one thing that humans are going to bring in an era of infinite productivity."

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The next era of software: humans in the driver’s seat, AI as acceleration. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says real engineering is thousands of micro-decisions. Trade-offs only humans can judge. AI should amplify that, not replace it. “You’ll really want the human in the driver’s seat dictating these decisions.”

The next era of software: humans in the driver’s seat, AI as acceleration. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says real engineering is thousands of micro-decisions. Trade-offs only humans can judge. AI should amplify that, not replace it. “You’ll really want the human in the driver’s seat dictating these decisions.”

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