Link to 2.5 hour podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4 In the podcast with the Cursor team, the central theme is how AI will reshape software development. AI will handle routine, repetitive coding tasks, giving developers more freedom to focus on creativity, like solving complex problems and designing systems. Another key shift is in feedback loops, with AI enabling real-time debugging and testing, significantly speeding up the process. Prompt engineering will become an essential skill—learning how to ask AI the right questions will differentiate skilled developers. The podcast also highlights a shift toward no-code environments, which will allow non-developers to build software by using natural language rather than traditional coding. This broadens access to software development, making it more inclusive for people outside the programming field. While AI is transforming the workflow, the Cursor team emphasizes that it’s not replacing developers but augmenting their abilities. AI will function as a powerful assistant, helping to streamline workflows and increase productivity. Developers will still play a central role in overseeing projects, ensuring quality and innovation. Finally, the future of development environments is promising, with smarter integrated development environments (IDEs) on the horizon. These IDEs will proactively assist developers by flagging issues, optimizing code, and even suggesting improvements without waiting for human intervention. Developers can expect these tools to serve as co-pilots, elevating their capabilities and enabling them to handle larger, more complex projects with greater efficiency. #cursor #product #productmanager #productmanagement #startup #business #openai #llm #ai #microsoft #google #gemini #anthropic #claude #llama #meta #nvidia #career #careeradvice #mentor #mentorship #mentortiktok #mentortok #careertok #job #jobadvice #future #2024 #story #news #dev #coding #code #engineering #engineer #coder #sales #cs #marketing #agent #workflow #work #smart #thinking #strategy #cool #real #jobtips #hack #hacks #tip #tips #tech #techtok #techtiktok #aiupdates #techtrends #voiceAI #developerlife #aidevelopment #software #artificialintelligence #llms #automation #developers #programming #digitaltransformation #podcast

I'm going to give you two and a half hours back. I want to go through six takeaways from a podcast with the founders of Cursor. Cursor is an AI development engine where you can actually build in a development environment but also use plain English to talk with AI and that helps you code. I love it. It's great. I want to tell you about what they're imagining for the future because in a sense they're helping to build the future for all of us who are building product. First takeaway from the long two and a half hour podcast. The world is going to get more creative. If these sound a little bit generic it's because like podcasting just encourages these kinds of takeaways. So what they're saying is essentially some of the drudge work in engineering is going to go away and the creativity is going to come in and come to the fore. I think they're right about that and I think that that is one of the areas where we are going to see the creativity that I've always seen in my engineering colleagues come to the fore. They can spend more time on that rather than fixing API calls. Number two, feedback loops getting tighter. So we talk about continuous deployment now is the idea of like continuously deploying your software so you test it in an agile manner as you go forward. They're talking about continuous deployment in seconds because the AI is able to test so effectively and fix bugs. That's an exciting thing to think about. Imagine being able to test in seconds and just get deployed. That's amazing. Number three, they're talking about the value of precise prompting. Again, that one's not super new. I agree with it. I think that one of the things that that suggests is that we are not just going to be looking at a world where engineers are the ones building product but like anybody can ask precise prompts and that's one of those sub themes in the cursor conversation is that the world of engineering as a job family is about to change and they are building tooling that makes it possible for people who are not engineers to work with code. Precise prompts, asking the question carefully, is part of how they do that. Number four, moving to a no-code environment right in line with that theme of the job family expanding for engineers. What do you do when you can code in English? You have an interface that shifts more toward English over time. It doesn't mean the code goes away. It doesn't mean you lose visibility on the code nor does it mean that people who are currently more comfortable in code can't continue to use code. It just means that the environments that we're building are going to shift toward the English coded future. Number five, AI as co-pilot. This is right in line with this idea of like language being used to code. Like if AI is your co-pilot, AI should be able to use plain English to come back to you in the morning and say here's the bugs I found overnight, here's what I did, here's how I fixed them, here's what I think is most critical about our tech debt this morning, and then imagine you as the engineer, the builder, looking at that and saying this is what I care about, this is what I want to invest in. Now that's not possible today. It is the kind of thing that Cursor is talking about building. Finally, smart development environments. So this is one of those cases where you want to be in a position to have your development environment be continuously aware. How can your development environment let you know as you go through what matters and what doesn't about the codebase, about the way the codebase is related to behavioral metrics that you're seeing? From a product perspective this is really interesting because I could imagine a world where you can actually get a sense of the stresses on the codebase from ongoing behavioral usage and have that cycled right back into the development team effectively. There's a lot of really interesting things that we just have never thought about as practices for getting inputs into our thinking for building better product. And AI is making some of those ideas at least a dream, not quite a reality yet. I'm not saying you go to Cursor and Cursor is going to tell you how the traffic hitting your servers is impacting the codebase, but it may tell you that the next six months or the next year. So those are six takeaways. It was a long podcast. If you have the time I do encourage you to go after it. I will put it right here in TikTok. You can hit that link and go after it. Have a great day. If you did hear the podcast let me know what I missed and good luck building. Building is about to get easier.