SolidWorks
product on 4 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2019
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 
Latent Space 2 
No Priors 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
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- Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- No Priors Ep. 121 | With Chai Discovery Co-Founders Jack Dent and Joshua Meier
- Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
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Truell: Cursor began as an AI copilot for mechanical engineers in CAD
“The first real idea that we worked on for a long time was in mechanical engineering. It was trying to build a co-pilot for mechanical engineers and trying to train models to kind of predict what you would do in a CAD system like SolidWorks or Fusion three 60 w…”
Dent: A CAD software suite for biology will be created
“And I think once you have that, you really enter this era where you sort of have a computer aided design suite for molecules in a way that, you know, we have maybe solid works for mechanical engineering, or we have Photoshop for create creatives and that, that…”