Through the lens of a serial entrepreneur, this article explores how the AI revolution is shifting from infrastructure to the application layer, where the greatest opportunities lie in solving specialized, data-heavy in... f.mtr.cool/yytwxqgkfu

Here's my conversation with the founding team of Cursor, a popular code editor (based on VSCode) that specializes in AI-assisted programming. This is a super technical conversation that is bigger than just about one code editor. It's about the future of programming and, in general, the future of human-AI collaboration. It's here on X in full, and is up on everywhere else. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:59 - Code editor basics 3:09 - GitHub Copilot 10:27 - Cursor 16:54 - Cursor Tab 23:08 - Code diff 31:20 - ML details 36:54 - GPT vs Claude 43:28 - Prompt engineering 50:54 - AI agents 1:04:51 - Running code in background 1:09:31 - Debugging 1:14:58 - Dangerous code 1:26:09 - Branching file systems 1:29:20 - Scaling challenges 1:43:32 - Context 1:48:39 - OpenAI o1 2:00:01 - Synthetic data 2:03:48 - RLHF vs RLAIF 2:05:34 - Fields Medal for AI 2:08:17 - Scaling laws 2:17:06 - The future of programming

The Harvard/MIT startup scene is absolutely cracked. @cursor_ai, @cognition_labs, @mercor_ai, @Etched all founded by recent grads/dropouts The energy here feels different: no virtue signaling, just insane heads-down building every weekend 😤

🆕 pod: The Winds of AI Winter! latent.space/p/q2-2024-recap The vibes have shifted... @fanahova and @swyx celebrate 1m downloads and recap the last 3 months in AI! Discussing the Frontier Labs vibe shift between Claude 3.5, Llama 3.1, Apple Intelligence, and the expansion of RAG/Ops into the new war for the LLM OS. Bonus: @ChatGPTapp voice mode demo with @ethansutin!