Michael Truell
7 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2025 by Michael Truell · said 7 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
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May 1, 2025 negative
Truell: Cursor initially over-indexed on young candidates from top schools
“We maybe, we actually biased a little bit too much towards looking for people who fit the archetype of well-known school, very young, had done the things that were like, you know, high credential in those well-known school environments.”
May 1, 2025 positive
Truell: Cursor post-trains top open-source and closed-source foundation models
“Starting from the very best you know pre-trained models that exist out there. Often open source ones, you know, sometimes in collaboration with these big model providers that, that don't share their weights out into the world because the thing we care about le…”
May 1, 2025 bullish
May 1, 2025 positive
May 1, 2025 positive
Truell: Cursor's goal is inventing an intent-based programming paradigm
“Our goal with Cursor is to invent, ah, sort of a new type of programming a very different way to build software that's kind of just distilled down into you describing the intent to the computer for what you want in the most concise way possible, ah, and really…”
May 1, 2025 neutral
Truell: Giant prompts are a recipe for disaster; break tasks down
“Instead, what I would do is I would chop things up into bits, and you can spend basically, you know, the same amount of time specifying things overall, but chopped up more. So you're specifying a little bit, you're getting a little bit of work, you're specifyi…”
May 1, 2025 bullish
Truell: AI shift will be more consequential than the internet over decades
“I think it's gonna be more consequential than the internet. I think it's gonna be more consequential than, you know, any shift in tech that we've seen since, since the advent of computers. And I think it's gonna take a while. And I think it's gonna be a multi-…”