Jacob Jackson

Machine Learning Engineer, Cursor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jacob Jackson is an AI engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered modern AI code completion by creating Tabnine and later founding Supermaven. A former OpenAI research scientist, he joined Cursor in 2024 after it acquired Supermaven.

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Opinion

Cursor's Jacob Jackson: AI Tools Have Already Accelerated Many Developers Over 2X

“I think many people have been accelerated more than two X by this technology already. And the technology is only going to get better. So I think comparing it to the developer salary is the right way to look at it.”

Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 8:37 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

Disclosure

Jackson: Cursor focuses on tools for experienced developers unlike competitors

“Compared to many other companies in the space, we very much care about making something that we want to use and that a experienced software developer really enjoys using.”

Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 25:37 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

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Jackson: GPUs Will Remain Expensive with Real Energy Footprints

“These GPUs are expensive and they have a real footprint in electricity and heat, and that's not going to change.”

Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 7:15 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

Disclosure

Jackson: Cursor Sales Team Builds Internal Tools Using Cursor

“Many people in our sales org are also building tools to help the sales org using cursor.”

Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 15:53 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

Insight

Jacob Jackson: A single developer acceleration metric is flawed

“To pick a single acceleration factor is difficult because it depends Where you were previously.”

Jacob Jackson Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 25:26 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI	Sep 5, 2025	6m

Jacob Jackson

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