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Published · transcript-backedAnkur Goyal: belief
11 Oct 2024 Latent Space Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust
“Are you competitive? And what I think is like, cursor is taking AI and making traditional software engineering insanely good with AI.”
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- Ankur Goyal
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- belief
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- 11 Oct 2024
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- Latent Space
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…How literally can you take it? Can you fork VS Code? It's not off the table. We're friends with the cursor people and now part of the same portfolio. And sometimes people say, AI and engineering, are you cursor? Are you competitive? And what I think is like, cursor is taking AI and making traditional software engineering insanely good with AI. And we're taking some of the best things about traditional software engineering and bringing them to building AI software. And so, we're almost like yin and yang in some ways with development. But forking VS Code and doing crazy stuff is not off the table. It's all ideas that we're cooking at this point. Interesting. I think that when people say analogies, they should often take it to the extreme and see what that generates in terms of ideas. And when people say IDE, literally go there. Because I think a lot of people treat their playground and they say figuratively IDE, they don't mean it. And they should. They should mean it.…
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