Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…I'm really a big fan of Cursor. I think it's changed. I love creating software and I'm excited though for agents. I've been really excited. I was very excited to see Codex from OpenAI and others. So I think Cursor will be in its current form, is a transition product. And I know they're working on agents as well, but I really enjoyed taking something I love and it's been my life's passion and really diving into this AI tool and seeing how it transforms how I create software. So I've just been spending a lot of time with the product just because it's so core to what I love to do and it's a really well crafted product. I think that's the first time someone's actually mentioned Cursor in this answer, so might be the beginning of a trend. Michael Trell was on the podcast and he actually had a very similar message as you had at the beginning of this chat about the future of code, what comes after code and this concept that there's going to be this additional pseudo code layer on top of code. Very aligned with your thinking. Do you have a favorite life motto that you often come back to and find useful in work or in life? The best way to predict the future is to invent it, which I think I attribute to Alan Kay of Xerox PARC. He invented a lot of the core abstractions that we use in computing today. I'm an entrepreneur, it's why I love to build things and it's definitely a life motto for me.…

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