.@martin_casado on the culture that makes Cursor iterate faster than any other AI company he's worked with: "A lot of these AI companies I work with are so research-heavy. If you're not working on a new model architecture, it's kind of hard to actually interest the core teams." "Cursor always kept the main thing the main thing, which is changing how you write software engineering. They believed fundamentally it was a product problem, not a model architecture problem." "They hired incredibly well. They set culture incredibly well. The founders probably spend 30, 40% of their time hiring and setting culture. They were very focused on engineering, not research and model architecture." "It's just wild in this space. There's actually not a lot of companies focused on product. They'll focus on services. A lot of the fine-tuning, post-training companies are more service-oriented. Neo labs are research companies. But Cursor said, we are a product company. That's actually a key differentiator in this era." @a16z @cursor_ai