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Cursor 4 Episodes Jun 11, 2026

A collection of conversations from the team at Cursor, covering various topics related to their work and interests.

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How Two Baseten Researchers Use Coding Agents Jun 11, 2026 00:41:56 Cursor's Sam Whitmore sits down with Baseten's Charlie O'Neill and Harry Partridge to discuss where working with agents goes next: running them by the hundred, getting them to message and review each other, and building systems instead of just managing parallel tasks.

Simon Eskildsen on scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases May 14, 2026 00:51:04 Sualeh Asif (Co-Founder of Cursor) sits down with Simon Eskildsen (CEO of turbopuffer) to discuss scaling Shopify through flash sales, why a new database company emerges every 15 years, and what makes a P99 engineer.0:00 - Scaling Shopify through flash sales and outages7:11 - How the Shopify infrastructure team evolved8:13 - How top infrastructure teams collaborated in the 2010s10:35 - Engineering

John Schulman on dead ends, scaling RL, and building research institutions Dec 17, 2025 00:51:25 A conversation with John Schulman on the first year LLMs could have been useful, building research teams, and where RL goes from here.00:00 - Speedrunning ChatGPT09:22 - Archetypes of research managers11:56 - Was OpenAI inspired by Bell Labs?16:54 - The absence of value functions18:23 - Continual learning21:09 - Brittle generalization24:05 - Co-training generators and verifiers, GANs27:06 - John’s

Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions Jul 17, 2025 00:50:05 Michael Truell (CEO of Cursor) sits down with Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe) to discuss programming languages, the role of AI in programming, and building long-lasting software.00:15 Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk03:35 LISP chatbots06:09 Good ideas from esoteric programming languages09:12 Brett Victor and Dynamicland16:37 Programming human organizations20:28 A codebase's "Big B

Training superhuman coding models at Cursor May 30, 2025 00:49:40 What does it really take to train an AI to write great code? In this roundtable conversation, some of the founders and researchers at Cursor explore the process of building superhuman AI coding agents — from infinite context models and the best rewards to real-time RL and scaling to millions of environments.This is an inside look at some of the work behind Cursor and what AI-assisted coding might

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