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9 Aug 2026 Lenny's Podcast The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
“And so our agent allows you to choose the right model. And I think for a lot of companies also cost is a rightful consideration now.”
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- 9 Aug 2026
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…Just to plug Cursor a little bit, not only is just the design and experience of Cursor awesome, the best feature for a lot of people is you could just switch between models extremely easily. So instead of getting hooked on Codex or Claude Code, you use Cursor and then a new Opus comes out, a new GPT comes out and you could switch and just play around with it immediately versus switching the product. Yeah. There was a world where models were coming out every three or four months. We're down to a number of days between models. And people I know who love to build products want to be working with the best tools at any given time. And so our agent allows you to choose the right model. And I think for a lot of companies also cost is a rightful consideration now. And so it really comes around optimization of using the right model for the right task, and so that's just landing it to Cursor's sweet spot. Yeah. And you guys are also now just building state-of-the-art models built sitting on SpaceX's data centers.…
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