John Bai
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John Bai
@johnbai
Designing @Cursor_AI in NYC

It’s been an exciting week for the Cursor design team


ok! quick updates from me: - i left anthropic (who does that?!) - had a baby (i love her) - and am joining @cursor_ai as head of design (eep!) it's been a low-key dream of mine to nurture a team that cares so deeply about craft, quality, and building great tools. very excited!



Literally the 100th flower-blooming shader animation I’ve seen

Guangzhou riverside run, then Chinese coffee and breakfast for under 5 dollars. Life is good when you haven’t opened figma in 2 weeks

China is crazy. You could quit big tech, move into a dilapidated leaky Chengdu rooftop shack, train AI models as a freelancer, and still end up doing food delivery at night just to make rent.


GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in Cursor. On CursorBench, Sol scores 67.2%.

Work together. Plan together. Stay ahead of the game together. Coda is becoming Superhuman Docs: rolling out now, so your workflow can be way more efficient. Learn more about the future of working in our latest blog: bit.ly/4vUPaOL

To reach, more than to make. At a Figma Config 2026 side event, @johnbai built Cursor’s onboarding inside Cursor — live. It stalled, got fixed, kept going. Like our days, building alongside AI. I wrote it down: littlethelily.github.io/config-aftergl…


Unless speculation and outside investment takes over, there should be more homes than are needed in China for foreseeable future. Welcome to a world where homes are a depreciating asset.















