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Published · transcript-backedBret Taylor: belief
31 Jul 2025 Lenny's Podcast He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
“I'm probably out of my depth here, but it's essentially MCP because that's how you provide context to Cursor. And I think that almost always when you have a model making a poor decision, if it's a good model, it's lack of context.”
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- 31 Jul 2025
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…I've never heard of this technique of improving Cursor by adding additional context. What's the actual way of doing that? You build an MCP server that everything runs through or is it like you add Cursor rules? What's the actual approach there? I'm probably out of my depth here, but it's essentially MCP because that's how you provide context to Cursor. And I think that almost always when you have a model making a poor decision, if it's a good model, it's lack of context. And so, you really want to find the intersection of your particular product and code base with the context available to these coding agents and systems and fix it at the root is the principle here. Got it. That is very cool. I hadn't heard of people doing that, model context protocol, makes sense. We've talked about productivity gains outside TX. Just to give you a chance to share how amazing what you've built is, what are some of the gains you see from people using Sierra?…
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