maya

@benln ❤️

Baby sister arrived yesterday. Deeply grateful.

@lee94josh !!!!

getting married in a week. diet starts now

@zebriez @camillericketts @NotionHQ @ivanhzhao @akothari @simonlast @davidtibbies ❣️

@camillericketts @NotionHQ @ivanhzhao @akothari @simonlast @davidtibbies the best writing partner a gal could wish for 🧙

They say you can’t go home again. Pretty true, but not entirely. It was fascinating to return to @NotionHQ to find many of the same hearts & minds at work (@ivanhzhao @akothari @simonlast & @davidtibbies among them) - but in entirely new ways for the AI era. Thrilled to document this shift alongside the magical @zebriez for @colossusmag.

Cursor can now respond by creating interactive canvases to visually represent information. Ask it to generate dashboards and custom interfaces that are richer than plain text.

We've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor 3. They bring a little more delight when you are orchestrating agents. Just like in your terminal, you can now split agents for multi-tasking in Cursor.

agents in cursor 3

@DanHollick so excited you're here!!!!

first day

@akothari "spaceship earth"!

Beautiful answer x.com/spacebrandonb/…

cursor now has design mode (⇧+⌘+D) - click to edit, drag to draw - shift + drag to box things in - add directly to chat with ⌥+click

@leerob congrats lee!!!

Life update... daughter #2 has arrived 🌸🌹

RT @ryolu_: glass vs. black box we believe you should be able see everything. and be in control of everything. the terminal was a black b…

Cursor 3 is here. Where power meets simplicity. Works across all your projects, local and cloud. It starts simple, then unfolds more tools when you need them – so you stay in flow and in control. Enjoy!

Meet the new Cursor! Very excited about this. Wanted to share a bit more of the story of how we landed here, how the product evolved, and some of the technical details on the new interface. I've been coding primarily with agents since Opus 4.5, but hadn't found an interface I loved (including our own). Agent sidebars or CLIs worked but still felt limiting to me. And our first iteration of the "agent window" wasn't good enough yet. So we went back to the drawing board to build a completely new interface for agents in December. The trend seemed pretty clear that increasingly less time would be spent in traditional IDEs. But as we started to dogfood early versions, it was very hard to give up some parts of an editor. Even if agents write 98% of the code, that last 2% of viewing files, debugging, many small edits and refactors, and having all the niceties like go to definition, LSPs, and more were really important. We couldn't remove those. So @ryolu_ and I started prototyping some ideas late Dec for a new interface. It would start simple/zen, but then allow you to still go deeper as needed. And slowly we developed enough conviction to make it real. The Cursor eng/product team then took some of those early ideas and made something 10x better than I imagined. Seriously major kudos to the team! We started fresh with this new UI in a lot of ways. "Deleting the product" is especially important as models continue to improve and the UX needs to be continually rethought. However that doesn't mean you have to throw out *all* the good ideas. Making it easy for existing users to adapt is also very important. In this new interface, we own all the pixels. We were able to design a system/architecture that takes all the learnings from Cursor 1/2 and moves away from some of the VS Code constraints we were limited by. I definitely empathize with feedback that in Cursor 2 we were moving around the UI too much and changing icons/buttons. Agents were taking over more and more work, and they started to break out of the IDE UI. We needed to iterate and try a bunch of things, and that was annoying for those of you expecting a more consistent editor experience. Making this new agent interface as a separate window actually also makes the Cursor 2.0 IDE *better*! Rather than continuing to try and extend the IDE to have agents own the entire UI, we were able to simplify and delete a lot of code by using existing VS Code patterns. Namely, agent chats are now just normal tabs like any other file. This is much more stable and familiar for doing splits/panes and all related keyboard shortcuts. A win-win-win, as they say. But also in this architecture refactor, we were able to address some local vs. cloud divergence and tech debt that had accumulated over time. The core Cursor agent harness is the same across the desktop app, web app, CLI, etc. So there really shouldn't be two code paths like: if (local) { ... } else if (cloud) { ... } Cloud agents were not used much until we gave them the ability to use a computer and record demos of their work, so now that usage has grown considerably in the past few months, it was even more important to nail this abstraction. We think cloud usage will continue to grow and be a big part of 2026. Finally (this is already a long post, oops), we have been able to really focus on performance in the new interface. I'm sure there will still be things to improve (please send them to us) but we've spent considerably more time profiling, investigating, and patching memory/cpu leaks. We are also now using the React Compiler! s/o @poteto who has also been making a bunch of perf improvements. The end result here is that Cursor 3 feels much more pleasant to use. Faster, more reliable, less UI jank. You get to use all your favorite models, local or cloud, run automations, install plugins, get back demo videos, and more. Give it a try and lmk your feedback! We're gonna be shipping updates quickly in the coming days.

很久没有看到如此出色的广告了。 Think Together：一个时代级的叙事校准。 1930 年 IBM 说 Think，1997 年 Apple 说 Think Different，2026 年 Notion 说 Think Together。 三个词，接住了将近一个世纪的科技精神史。IBM 定义了理性的价值，Apple 把理性推向了个体的叛逆，而 Notion 在 AI 全面接管效率叙事的当下，把锚点拉回到了「人与人」。 它精准地说出了 2026 年最被忽略的一种焦虑。 当下 AI 领域最主流的故事是什么？一个人加一群 chatbot，其他人类是摩擦力，是成本，是可以被替代的变量。所有人都在讲 "10x engineer"、"one-person startup"、solo founder 神话。Notion 在这个叙事高点选择逆向表态：最好的东西从来不是一个人造出来的。这句话放在 2024 年说是陈词滥调，放在 2026 年说是立场。 从品牌策略看，这个立场有三层意思： 第一，占位。 Think 本身就是科技品牌的圣杯级资产。Notion 把自己放进 IBM 和 Apple 的叙事脉络里，不是在蹭，是在宣告自己有资格定义下一个时代命题。对一个生产力工具来说，这种野心几乎是唯一正确的品牌上升路径。 第二，差异化。 竞品都在卷 AI agent 的能力边界（多快、多强、替代多少人），Notion 跳出功能维度，直接在价值观层面画线：我们相信 collaborative AI，相信 abundance over efficiency。这让 Notion 在同质化严重的 AI 工具赛道里，获得了一种几乎无法被复制的情感壁垒。 第三，诚实。 Ivan Zhao 自己说的那句话很关键：togetherness is what gives us meaning。它触及了一个被效率崇拜遮蔽的真实需求：人需要同伴，需要在协作中确认自己的存在感。AI 越强大，这种需求越会反弹。 在 2026 年的科技叙事里，Notion 选择站在人的一边，是一种勇气。

@camillericketts ❤️

This is a human to work with.

@mynameisceline @DialecticPod ❤️

went on the esteemed and beloved @DialecticPod to discuss research as a leisure activity, why technologists should study history, why texting your friends counts as intellectual work, and using our finite lives to read more BOOKS (like…the Chinese classic Zhuangzi…or Proust…)

Celine Nguyen says intellectual discovery is our birthright: "reading and writing are the most dignified and worthy activities that anyone can do—and, in fact, are activities that everyone should do." I talked to @mynameisceline about changing your life by writing online, expanding the market for what you love, and starting somewhere, even if it requires pure impulse. Celine writes personal canon, a newsletter focused on taking your intellectual development seriously long after you leave school or academia. This includes literary criticism and many more interdisciplinary thoughts across art, culture, design, and technology. She doubles as a product designer in her professional life. We discuss: - leisurely research and creating a curriculum for your growth long after you graduate: "who do I want to be at the end of the season?" - why literary classics can be thrilling rather than dutiful, how you can expand the market for what you love, and why you should read Proust - using parasociality to psyop people into doing things that are good for them - how studying historical contexts makes us smarter about the present, and how to root yourself in epistemic humility about the now - why note taking systems must be a means to an end, and how her best "systems" are inefficient handwritten journals and actual published work - becoming the “Venkatesh Rao for tumblr girls” - how learning makes you live "longer" - that many will wait a lifetime for someone to give them permission to do what they've always hoped to do Timestamps: 1:35 - Intro to Celine 6:18 - Start: Pursuing a Life of the Mind, Personal Curriculum, and Contextualizing the Present in History 24:53 - Research as a Leisure, Self-Cultivation, and Calibrating Rigor 39:59 - Effectiveness, Tools & Process, and Letting Output Drive Your Learning 59:35 - Parasocially Influencing People to Do Good Things (Like Reading and Writing) 1:09:39 - Drawing the Reader in and Expanding the Market for What You Love (and for Proust) 1:24:07 - Aspiration, Posing, and Pretending Your Way into Enthusiasm 1:34:37 - Preparation is Not Progress 1:46:07 - Copying, Writing Process, Mechanics, and Design 1:57:25 - Commitment, Finishing, Substack, Life Extension and Closing @dialecticpod Ep. 42: Celine Nguyen - Nurturing Your Mind in Public - is available below and on all platforms.

@jacksondahl @mynameisceline goat

@jacksondahl @mynameisceline wow!!!!!