Cursor is currently the hottest AI developer tool. And its prowess is further reinforced when Andrej Karpathy decides to praise it. In a recent post on X, Karpathy said that he is trying Cursor along with Claude Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot and said it’s a net win.
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“Just empirically, over the last few days most of my ‘programming’ is now writing English (prompting and then reviewing and editing the generated diffs), and doing a bit of ‘half-coding’ where you write the first chunk of the code you’d like, maybe comment it a bit so the LLM knows what the plan is, and then tab tab tab through completions,” said Karpathy, adding that he is able to do coding a lot faster with the help of the tool.
Further in the thread, he added that with the capabilities of LLM shifting so rapidly, it is important for developers to continually adapt the current capabilities. “The tool is now a complex living thing,” he added.
“All this talk of Claude + Cursor and becoming capable of building anything you put your mind to (no matter your skill set) is warranted. If this is the future, I want to live in it,” said Jordan Singer from Figma.
Sebastian Raschka, LLM research engineer at Lightning AI, said that though using the tool is fun, he sometimes enjoys unassisted coding as well. “It’s like driving a manual car (/stick). Not the most practical but fun,” he explained with an analogy.
Pratik Desai, CEO of KissanAI, added, “Once you start using it regularly, you are going to develop your own tricks suitable for your style, that may not be over there in their onboarding tutorials.”
Anysphere, the company building the tool, recently raised $60 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, and included contributions from OpenAI’s Jeff Dean, John Schulman, Nat Friedman, and Noam Brown, valuing the company at $400 million.
The hype around Cursor AI is true. To give an example, Ricky Robinett, VP of developer relations at Cloudflare, posted a video of his eight-year-old daughter building a chatbot on the Cloudflare Developer Platform in just 45 minutes using Cursor AI, documenting the whole process, even the spelling mistakes while giving prompts!
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“The hottest new programming language is English,” Karpathy said more than a year back. Now for him, it is coming true in the purest sense.