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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual tech demo chat with live screen shares, blending interview-style Q&A and product walkthroughs.
- The Key Players:
- Cursor Team (Demos & Hosts): Sam and Michael (likely engineers/leads) showcase features; they're insiders building AI coding tools, famous for Cursor's rapid rise as a VS Code fork turned agent powerhouse.
- Interviewer: Dwarkesh Patel (implied host), probing with sharp questions on AI dev trends.
- The Vibe: Excited & Educational—geeky enthusiasm over demos, futuristic optimism about AI agents revolutionizing coding, with insider banter.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The discussion dives into Cursor's agentic evolution, from autocomplete to full autonomy, emphasizing cloud VMs, parallelism, and dev workflows.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Cloud Agents Overview and Experiments**
- 2 (00:53) **Cloud Agents Demo: Core Features**
- 3 (03:38) **Demo: Tooltip and Error Handling**
- 4 (08:36) **Model Improvements and Internal Usage**
- 5 (10:22) **Demo: Bug Reproduction and Fix**
- 6 (13:36) **Slash Commands and Internal Tools**
- 7 (16:20) **MCPs and Integrations**
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Show Notes
All speakers are announced at AIE EU, schedule coming soon. Join us there or in Miami with the renowned organizers of React Miami! Singapore CFP also open!
We’ve called this out a few times over in AINews, but the overwhelming consensus in the Valley is that “the IDE is Dead”. In November it was just a gut feeling, but now we actually have data: even at the canonical “VSCode Fork” company, people are officially using more agents than tab autocomplete (the first wave of AI coding):
Cursor has launched cloud agents for a few months now, and this specific launch is around Computer Use, which has come a long way since we first talked with Anthropic about it in 2024, and which Jonas productized as Autotab:
We also take the opportunity to do a live demo, talk about slash commands and subagents, and the future of continual learning and personalized coding models, something that Sam previously worked on at New Computer. (The fact that both of these folks are top tier CEOs of their own startups that have now joined the insane talent density gathering at Cursor should also not be overlooked).
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Timestamps
00:00 Agentic Code Experiments00:53 Why Cloud Agents Matter02:08 Testing First Pillar03:36 Video Reviews Second Pillar04:29 Remote Control Third Pillar06:17 Meta Demos and Bug Repro13:36 Slash Commands and MCPs18:19 From Tab to Team Workflow31:41 Minimal Web UI Philosophy32:40 Why No File Editor34:38 Full Stack Cursor Debate36:34 Model Choice and Auto Routing38:34 Parallel Agents and Best Of N41:41 Subagents and Context Management44:48 Grind Mode and Throughput Future01:00:24 Cloud Agent Onboarding and Memory
Transcript
EP 77 - CURSOR - Audio version
[00:00:00]
Agentic Code Experiments
Samantha: This is another experiment that we ran last year and didn’t decide to ship at that time, but may come back to LM Judge, but one that was also agentic and cou
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