Allen Wang

Cofounder @ | MIT '23

I'm new to this Twitter/X thing (I'm more of a pen and paper guy). Excited to follow more people in tech/energy!

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

Suddenly, Cursor's strategy makes so much sense.

I use Cursor because of the superior product experience. This advantage is part of a larger play.

Unlike Anthropic, Cursor isn't betting on AI coders being the future.

Instead, humans stay in the driver's seat. Cursor's betting that for AI coding to work at scale, we need better products that equip developers with more control, not less.

The whole product development stack will innovate in the next 2 years. Cursor is aggressively pursuing vertical integration.

The Automation demo shows how Cursor connects the steps from a PagerDuty incident to the bug patch. Cursor's design mode replaces Figma / Webflow. Their acquisition of Graphite shows AI won't make code review obsolete. Rather, we need better tools to scale code review to handle AI coding.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cursor was designing a new Github, looking to buy a Vercel, or reinventing parts of Linear / Pylon / PagerDuty / Datadog / etc.

Cursor "plugins" looks like an experimental stepping stone towards owning the entire stack (Pylon / Datadog / Pagerduty / Posthog --> Linear --> Figma --> Cursor --> CI/CD + QA --> Vercel).

Intelligence doesn't replace humans, it forces us to use different products to scale ourselves further.

We saw something similar in self-driving. Even after a decade of RL research, Waymo is still not fully autonomous. The company uses tele-operators with a ratio of ~ 1 driver : 3 cars.

Scalable self-driving requires us to build better tools to allow teleoperators to scale to 1 driver : 30 cars and beyond (better AI models will help too along the way).

Seems like AI coding is very much in the early days...

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We're introducing Cursor Automations to build always-on agents.

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

Just saw Cursor's announcement of Origin. Turns out they were making a Github alternative! Excited for more of the vision to play out in the next few years

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

Suddenly, Cursor's strategy makes so much sense.

I use Cursor because of the superior product experience. This advantage is part of a larger play.

Unlike Anthropic, Cursor isn't betting on AI coders being the future.

Instead, humans stay in the driver's seat. Cursor's betting that for AI coding to work at scale, we need better products that equip developers with more control, not less.

The whole product development stack will innovate in the next 2 years. Cursor is aggressively pursuing vertical integration.

The Automation demo shows how Cursor connects the steps from a PagerDuty incident to the bug patch. Cursor's design mode replaces Figma / Webflow. Their acquisition of Graphite shows AI won't make code review obsolete. Rather, we need better tools to scale code review to handle AI coding.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cursor was designing a new Github, looking to buy a Vercel, or reinventing parts of Linear / Pylon / PagerDuty / Datadog / etc.

Cursor "plugins" looks like an experimental stepping stone towards owning the entire stack (Pylon / Datadog / Pagerduty / Posthog --> Linear --> Figma --> Cursor --> CI/CD + QA --> Vercel).

Intelligence doesn't replace humans, it forces us to use different products to scale ourselves further.

We saw something similar in self-driving. Even after a decade of RL research, Waymo is still not fully autonomous. The company uses tele-operators with a ratio of ~ 1 driver : 3 cars.

Scalable self-driving requires us to build better tools to allow teleoperators to scale to 1 driver : 30 cars and beyond (better AI models will help too along the way).

Seems like AI coding is very much in the early days...

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

@karpathy Agreed. Our team writes md files now that are "compiled" by LLMs to code

My favorite AI coding challenge: build a web app using Cursor. The catch is, you're is fully blindfolded (literally). Cursor reads aloud its output.

So you never see any code; instead, you can only hear it through the Cursor audio output. This forces you to become a more efficient coder in English

Coding in this blind environment forces you to adopt different coding workflows and practices. The most creative devs will build new tools + skills before starting. I'm convinced those new coding workflows is what the future IDE will build for.

https://t.co/YWKytGwPpC

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

Suddenly, Cursor's strategy makes so much sense.

I use Cursor because of the superior product experience. This advantage is part of a larger play.

Unlike Anthropic, Cursor isn't betting on AI coders being the future.

Instead, humans stay in the driver's seat. Cursor's betting that for AI coding to work at scale, we need better products that equip developers with more control, not less.

The whole product development stack will innovate in the next 2 years. Cursor is aggressively pursuing vertical integration.

The Automation demo shows how Cursor connects the steps from a PagerDuty incident to the bug patch. Cursor's design mode replaces Figma / Webflow. Their acquisition of Graphite shows AI won't make code review obsolete. Rather, we need better tools to scale code review to handle AI coding.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cursor was designing a new Github, looking to buy a Vercel, or reinventing parts of Linear / Pylon / PagerDuty / Datadog / etc.

Cursor "plugins" looks like an experimental stepping stone towards owning the entire stack (Pylon / Datadog / Pagerduty / Posthog --> Linear --> Figma --> Cursor --> CI/CD + QA --> Vercel).

Intelligence doesn't replace humans, it forces us to use different products to scale ourselves further.

We saw something similar in self-driving. Even after a decade of RL research, Waymo is still not fully autonomous. The company uses tele-operators with a ratio of ~ 1 driver : 3 cars.

Scalable self-driving requires us to build better tools to allow teleoperators to scale to 1 driver : 30 cars and beyond (better AI models will help too along the way).

Seems like AI coding is very much in the early days...

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

✨Latest post: Why Product Sense is the only product skill that will matter in the AI age

https://t.co/2Cz7IoMosi

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

Nectar just launched on @ycombinator's Launch YC!

🐝 Nectar - Making environmental data auditable and easier to collect. Check them out: https://t.co/cGeSPDKy2w

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Y Combinator has funded over 100 climate tech startups and wants to fund more. If you want to start one, here are some of the ideas they're looking for. But don't feel limited to these; the best ideas come from founders.

https://t.co/Z5Z5juuBts

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

@gustaf Excited to see the numbers for the YC batch and how they compare!

[Gustaf Alströmer @gustaf]

Climate tech is now 30% of all venture capital. 🌍

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This bike path In #SouthKorea is covered in #solar panels. It protects cyclists from the sun while producing 100% clean energy.

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #Climateaction #climate #renewables

[Allen Wang @AllenWang314]

@elonmusk In São Paulo right now with a group from mit. Hoping that we can make it back for school

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If AI saves people from having to write, it will also save them from having the ideas that writing engenders.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I'm reading a book a week in 2023. Classics, sci-fi, nonfiction, or anything people highly recommend. I'll keep adjusting the list. Start on Monday, done by Sunday. Might make lowkey videos of takeaways. If you want to read along, the current list is here: https://t.co/hYCs1pvLiZ

[Black Panther News @bpanthernews]

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER is set to film multiple scenes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) THIS weekend!

The filming will primarily consist of overnight driving scenes as well as a daytime scene at Simmons Hall (a student dorm)!

(via: @MsLizzieHill)

[Mem @memdotai]

The wait is almost over... Mem X Smart Write & Edit is coming soon. Stay tuned 👀

p.s. yes, Mem wrote this