Patrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions
Michael Truell (CEO of Cursor) sits down with Patrick Collison (CEO of Stripe) to discuss programming languages, the role of AI in programming, and building long-lasting software.00:15 Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk03:35 LISP chatbots06:09 Good ideas from esoteric programming languages09:12 Brett Victor and Dynamicland16:37 Programming human organizations20:28 A codebase's "Big Bang" moment and MongoDB25:49 Rewriting Stripe32:00 How do you, Patrick Collison, use AI?38:25 Changes to GDP/TFP41:56 Programming human biology46:10 Unexpected beneficiaries of AI
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Training superhuman coding models at Cursor
What does it really take to train an AI to write great code? In this roundtable conversation, some of the founders and researchers at Cursor explore the process of building superhuman AI coding agents — from infinite context models and the best rewards to real-time RL and scaling to millions of environments.This is an inside look at some of the work behind Cursor and what AI-assisted coding might look like in the future.
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