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Shakeel
Shakeel@ShakeelHashim·
This is an interesting podcast! It's also made me more bearish on Cursor. Context: Wolfson is the new-ish head of employee experience at Cursor, and much of this interview is about how to build great companies, and how this is changing in the AI era. She's written a good blog about Cursor's culture specifically (colossus.com/article/inside…). All of this is very interesting and there are some good insights here — Wolfson's worked at amazing companies and has lots of interesting lessons to share from them. But when it comes to thinking about the future, there's a a failure to *really* engage with what advanced AI capabilities will mean for the future of work. All the hypothesized changes are incredibly minor. They do not represent what the world might look like if we have human-level AI capabilities. In general, it's very normal for companies and their leaders not to be thinking about this stuff — it normally isn't much of a bearish signal that a company isn't "feeling the AGI". But when it's *an AI company*, alarm bells start ringing. Because if capabilities *do* keep advancing, and you're not *truly* prepared for and reckoning with what might mean, how on earth are you going to compete with the frontier labs who really do feel it, in their bones, and started preparing for it years ago? TL;DR: Evidence suggests that the Cursor folks don't feel the AGI. Good luck to them!
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Ep. 35: Brie Wolfson - Loving Attention & Ease in Craft @zebriez is something of a marketing and culture wizard, and has helped some of the most incredible companies and leaders in Silicon Valley by amplifying what is true and unique about them. That includes @cursor_ai and @mntruell, @joincolossus and @patrick_oshag, @stripe, @stripepress and @patrickc, @figma and @zoink, and others behind the scenes. But what stands out most in Brie is her infectious joy, dedication to craft, and lifelong dance between a desire to be great and an ability to listen to and trust herself to go in unlikely directions--as she so poignantly explored in her recent essay/profile on @kevin2kelly, 'Flounder Mode.' I hope this conversation inspires you find ways to amplify those you believe in with loving attention, settle into ease and quality in whatever you make, and pursue a life of joyful usefulness. Available below and on all platforms. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening 3:54 - Notion 5:04 - Intro: Craft, Finger Feel, and Staying Closer to the Ground Level 13:27 - Process vs. Output, Quality vs. Speed, and Great Editing 21:44 - Craft, Substance, and Truth in Marketing 25:56 - Individuals as the Building Block of a Company and Empowered ICs 32:02 - Creative Collaboration and In-Person and Remote 36:46 - Company Building: What is Changing and What Will Stay the Same 44:25 - The Soft Stuff: Great Company Values and Great Culture 52:17 - Thinking vs. Doing Cultures, 996 and Difficulty Sitting Still 1:00:37 - Morale, Fun, Amplifying Leaders, and Loving Attention 1:11:58 - Career Path Advice for Young People 1:19:56 - Kevin Kelly, Chasing Greatness, Illegibility, and Ease in One's Craft 1:27:29 - Special Talent and Contagious Ambition 1:32:22 - Brie’s Spike: Charisma, Hard and Soft, Making Things Fun, and Belief 1:43:23 - Taste, Appreciation, Generosity, Skill and Soul 1:57:26 - Great Editors, Saying No and Getting to Yes, and Being Receptive to Editing 2:05:25 - Great Writing: What do You Have the Right to Do that Others Don't? 2:13:55 - Grab Bag: Optimism and Pessimism, High and Low, and Closing Maxims 2:30:07 - Thanks to Notion

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edwin
edwin@edwinarbus·
@ShakeelHashim Cursor wants to empower developers and help them be more productive, not "feel the AGI." By definition, AGI is assessed by a wide field of tasks. Cursor's field is intentionally narrower: software. This is one of the main reasons why I left OpenAI for Cursor.
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Shakeel
Shakeel@ShakeelHashim·
@edwinarbus That’s my point! The entire company is a bet that model capabilities aren’t going to advance much further.
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Shakeel@ShakeelHashim·
@edwinarbus (If we have AGI, the job “developer” ceases to exist!)
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Alex@FullyAlexD·
@ShakeelHashim @edwinarbus I honestly dont understand this argument. Its a paper thin sentence that willingly just pretends that humans lose autonomy to make decisions in an AGI world and that problems stay universally bounded in the present. In reality 1 + 1 should equal 3 or what are we even doing?
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