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Recommends AnySphere.co.

22 Aug 2023 Latent Space Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere

“I recommend people actually check out AnySphere.co and read the manifesto because I think it's a broader message to builders out there.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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22 Aug 2023
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Latent Space

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…It's an interesting story where Michael and I were in this program Converge, and two of our friends, Arvid and Swale, who we knew like reasonably well at MIT. And we knew them because they're like some of the best engineers at MIT. And so they were independently kind of working on their own company. It was called AnySphere. And we both independently from after playing with GPT-4 realized, oh, wow, like the IDE is the thing to build. After a few months of independently working on it, we realized, okay, like, why are we doing this separately? We should just kind of join forces. And that's kind of what we did. And so right now, the overall company is called AnySphere. But yeah, the product and the core thing is Cursor. It's lovely. I recommend people actually check out AnySphere.co and read the manifesto because I think it's a broader message to builders out there. Yeah. Yeah. Let's jump into lightning round. Okay. We got three questions for you. The first one is, what is something that already happened in AI that you thought would take much longer?…

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