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 of... an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software, and you can edit that at a high level." "It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code, it'll instead be something that's much terser and easier to understand and easier to navigate." Michael Truell with Lenny Rachitsky on Lenny's Podcastshow more

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So they’re going to reinvent Python?

You're not going to believe this:

Shoutout to cursor reinventing Python from first principles

"Evolution toward pseudocode" is really the specification becoming the program Write what the software must achieve, the system synthesizes it. Tau Language does this now. The next layer up is a spec that reasons about its own and future rules. That's the actual frontier.

Yeah, I can write good prompts too, so what is the 60 billion dollars buying?

$TRAC @origin_trail $SPCX

is right. A few months ago I asked what super high level languages might look like for AI and for us. We must move past the plateau of abstraction provided by current programming languages to a higher abstraction based on intent. "Intent will be the key concept of super high level languages."

Building with Claude Code daily, the English spec works until specifics show up. Test coverage thresholds, retry budgets, and memory layout decisions all collapse into vague English the model has to guess at. COBOL and SQL both made this same promise. English can carry intent, but structured representations still own the constraints.

I was a loyal user of cursor. I upgraded when I saw they were advertising Fable 5. Access was immediately halted. I requested a pro-rated downgrade they refused. Saying 'not our model not our problem'. That's like a cafe running out of beans and serving you hot water but still charging you for coffee. The other providers gave a full refund with no questions asked. FUCK CURSOR.

This sounds like something that can only be said by someone who has no idea what programming is .. 🤔 I'll interpret this as just marketing hype

Shifting programming languages toward structured pseudocode sounds like the logical next step for developer productivity. Removing the syntax friction will allow engineers to spend more time designing robust software architecture and less time debugging typos.

please not, sounds disgusting

Hope you like working 18 hours days for Elon. I know you just can’t take your 60 billion and fade into the sunset. Elon is too smart for that

AI should no longer code, coding languages are just interference at this point. It should build.

Interesting to see this thesis gaining mainstream attention. Cursor is launching Origin this fall. Meanwhile, @gitlawb already has agent-native repositories, OpenGateway, OpenClaude, decentralized nodes, thousands of repos, tens of thousands of agents, and real usage happening today. The most interesting part isn't the announcement. It's how many companies are now moving toward a future Gitlawb has already been building in public. @pmarca

That's just Lingo (Macromedia Director) isn't it?

I pitched it first

lol Codex already achieved this, and Cursor has been copying them (poorly) all year. It's no contest. They need a radically new approach if they have any shot of being relevant, even after the SpaceX acquisition *(especially after).

If this happens, reading software becomes more important than writing software. That's a big change.

SpaceX acquiring Cursor is Elon building a direct answer to Claude Code and Codex using the tool developers already loved. OpenAI and Anthropic both have a problem now.

and now this vision has $60b of spacex stock behind it. checking live ai news like this here:

The most interesting impact is organizational. AI makes small technical teams more capable, which changes how companies think about hiring, product velocity, and capital allocation.

Cursor didn’t build any groundbreaking AI model themselves. They’re literally a fork of VS Code with Claude and OpenAI models nicely wrapped on top. At its core, it’s just a fancy wrapper. Nothing revolutionary. But the market is so hyped for anything AI-related that these guys are sitting on a crazy valuation. People are throwing money at them like there’s no tomorrow. The founders are barely 25-26 and already billionaires. It’s classic hype. They’re selling a well-packaged product, not a new invention. The valuation feels completely disconnected from reality.

Noted📝👀

COBOL called, wants credit

Woot woot congrats @mntruell

Most hate the term - but he's just describing vibe coding. It's making beautiful software from non coders. This is what we need.

Ok, Taken ✨💯

My vision for the new AI🤖software as SaaS is @SpaceX Architecture of glass cockpit where you can see full picture of your organization&products in one layout UI and UX experience Touch screen, real-time view, we can flip screen pages, we can scroll, zoom in&out 360degrees🎮🕹️

Bro inventing Python from first principles

is the model going to initially be exclusive to Cursor?

Setting the standard

If he is ceo then who is @sualehasif996 ?