Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI In only a few years, Cursor's AI dev tools have made a name for themselves as fast-shipping and fast-growing. CEO Michael Truell sat down with a16z's Martin Casado to discuss how Michael got here and what it's like to operate through rapid growth. They cover Cursor's early days, including an attempt at AI CAD software, the infrastructure challenges of scaling quickly, Cursor's two-day-onsite interview process, how Cursor has already found success using M&A, why Michael thinks automated software development is far away, and more. 00:00 The "Cursor for X" framework 03:17 The "blind man and the elephant problem" 07:00 Monthly investor updates as commitment device 08:48 "We were Luddites using command line Vim" 09:44 iPad on the window: "Cursor's down" 12:44 Hunting Sonnet tokens 18:16 Two-day work trial at 200+ people 22:11 Flying across the world after they say "No" 25:26 "It's so far away from being automated" 26:04 The iPod moment & iPhone moment for this industry @mtruell @martin_casado @cursor_ai