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Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:03 Michael Truell Uh, you know, GitHub Copilot was really the canonical example for us.
- ▶ 10:43 Michael Truell Yeah, I think that, um, so we had been inspired by, um, tools like Copilot really early on, um, and we had avoided working on, um, AI and coding because we thought it was too competitive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Michael Truell One of the papers that we would tout around is actually the original Codex paper, because by our calculations, Codex, which was the first, this was the first autocomplete model behind GitHub Copilot, it didn't really cost that much money…
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:22 Michael Truell One of them was using the first useful AI products where AI was really at the center, and GitHub Copilot was honestly the moment where that viscerally we really felt like, uh, now it was possible to make just
- ▶ 20:31 Michael Truell Um, we, I mean, being programmers ourselves and being inspired by products like Copilot and, uh, also papers like the early codex papers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:12 Michael Truell So we knew, we knew a little bit about this, the internal inside baseball of building GitHub Copilot, the first version, the, the whole building GitHub Copilot story from what I understand, and you know, don't have firsthand knowledge, so… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:33 Michael Truell It came from the CEO of GitHub at the time.