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Inside Cursor (Part 4)
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Episode 2
How AI is impacting Jobs and Roles? Advices to young engineers and students entering the industry on how to be prepared for the future.
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Transcript
Advice to My 20-Year-Old Self
00:00:03
Priyank Upadhyay
What would you tell 20-year-old self, a self-teaching and who is not sure where he belongs yet, if you could go and talk to him?
00:00:18
Mohit
Yeah, I think a lot of good advice is just simple advice, right? Like a lot of answers seems like fairly simple in that regard. And I think it's just sticking to the basics in the sense that it might feel like the world is, you know, running at a speed like 20x faster than you.
00:00:37
Mohit
It might feel overwhelming to see so many people doing so many things, so many people getting ahead at such an early age, all of that. But I think... It's important to like take a step back and remember that we all have different timelines and it's okay.
00:00:51
Mohit
It's a marathon, not a sprint. It's okay if you don't figure it out in the next three months, six months. But as long as you stick to the basics and you're able to like do just marginally better than yesterday, you are already on a good track, right?
Tools for Personal Productivity
00:01:03
Mohit
Now, being said that, some like practical advices I would give them is like, try finding a way to get you get access to these tools. It might not be the most affordable to you, it might not be like the most accessible to you. Try finding like i don't know hackathons, scholarships, all of those things. Whatever enables you to keep yourself updated with these tools so that you have some idea, you have like some access to these and exposure to these tools to see how they can influence your productivity. right ah it's no longer like I would say a option right like it's very important that you understand how these tools work and how they can help you do things 10x better right like I have spoken to my cousins who that phase and they were probably like
00:01:47
Mohit
using still like learning from their college and trying to develop sites which are like, yes, I shipped a site project. It's on my GitHub and it's on my resume, resume may but I go and check out the site and it's like the most basic site ever, which LLM can like definitely one shot, right? Like, so is that the edge anymore? I really doubt, right? Like try to think on a from like the other side that, okay, what does a company
Alternate Career Paths
00:02:10
Mohit
want now? And then work your way backwards from there that, okay, how can I make my application look very adjacent to what this company wants so i think that sort of like a first principled approach and like trying to uh you know
00:02:25
Mohit
make some way to use these tools and then understand from them rather than just fully depending on like probably what your college is saying or probably what you see your 10 people in the classroom saying right like there's a world out there now thanks to internet we can get access to the best stanford courses on youtube right like we can get access to the best people just on youtube that does not cost you anything except like some internet uh data costs right so i think that is still very useful but just to double down i think it's important to not feel disheartened and like not to blame the world that why are you moving so fast where i can't i think a lot of it is just like mental
00:03:08
Mohit
preserve like perseverance for yourself that okay it's okay the world is changing but I'll still find a way to fit in there I think that mental shift itself is very important to keep yourself going and not be like demotivated if you see another 21 year old already joining like a frontier AI lab and comparing yourself against it and I think that holds true for like no matter what stage of career you are in like there will be always someone doing better than you but also there's like just a big substrata of people out there in the world who probably are not doing even that much better right like so just be mindful and then work your way up from there
00:03:46
Priyank Upadhyay
In a parallel timeline Mohit, what do you think Mohit would be doing if not working at Cursor?
00:03:54
Mohit
I think if I had not taken commerce I would be an engineer at cursor still like not enough technical support role but probably a engineer But no, like, to be very honest, I think I still love everything I'm doing right now. Like, it and gets me most best of my both worlds, which is like having some sort of technical exposure without like feeling that I can break things. Like, this is like the perfect intersection for me.
00:04:21
Mohit
Parallelly, I think only other thing that I would probably enjoy doing is learning chess, like a lot of chess. I would probably be, yeah, good at it.
00:04:30
Priyank Upadhyay
Like playing?
00:04:31
Mohit
I love playing chess. I'm not good at it. I have like terrible ratings on the chess.com website, but it's just that I love the game. I watch a lot of matches. I understand, analyze it, but I'm not great at it. But in a parallel timeline, maybe after AGI, this is what I do.
00:04:48
Priyank Upadhyay
Do you think chess playing with the still AGI in place makes sense?
00:04:55
Mohit
Oh, it doesn't. Like already I can barely beat the bots, right? Like ah forget AGI. Like I can't, I i don't think Magnus Carlsen can beat the world's best model right now.
00:05:02
Priyank Upadhyay
I think it's it it was it was the first game that AI was trained on chess.
00:05:13
Mohit
I think it was around 1995 when IBM did something and then they had a match with Garry Kasparov and they finally beat him.
00:05:21
Priyank Upadhyay
right.
00:05:24
Mohit
I could be wrong on the details here, but like it's somewhere along those lines where like computers were finally able to beat like the grandmasters of the world. And then there were still like some edge cases where the p humans were winning. But I think since Google, Deep Blue, or like again, I'm...
00:05:40
Mohit
fogging on the details there but like since that google uh computer thing has come i don't think any humans stand a chance but i still am like i just love the game so much and i would still like to believe that um there's a lot of beauty remain remains in the game even if like agi or no agi
00:05:57
Priyank Upadhyay
Makes sense. Who do you hope is watching the episode or who wanted to ah be an audience of this?
Value of Non-Technical Roles
00:06:07
Mohit
I would really say like i would do two categories there. One like just people the non-technical again by qualification and degree and not like skill and knowledge. So conventional non-technical people in that sense if they are watching it and they feel like ah we have no way to stand in this world I think i hope like they feel after they start that hey you can right like there is enough the pie is super big and we all have some bite to chew on here.
00:06:33
Mohit
and also i think another segment would be like probably this is by a stake but support people right i would love if like more support people start thinking of like just cursor or like other tools out there which are really helpful in helping the you end user and give them better answers especially with like obnoxious banking platforms and all of those like they are the worst customers i mean support users on the planet right like they have the worst support And I always think like, hey, if you only had access to some good MCPs, if you only had, again, with enough guardrails and safety in place, of course, like you would be able to give me so much, such a like better experience. So I think like that is another segment I would love to like, again, like use all these great MCPs and plugins, like again, Rubik's Cube and all of those things, which kind of helps
00:07:22
Mohit
the support executive communicating to me give me a better answer. So I think like those two domains, if we are able to reach out to them and like even influence one of them to like think differently, I think we would have done our job at least.
00:07:34
Priyank Upadhyay
Nice. Your message to my audience.
00:07:38
Mohit
Oh, okay.
Engaging with AI Positively
00:07:39
Mohit
I think the whole podcast was a big message to the audience. But again, I think the message at the core of it remains that be skeptical is fine like have doubts have like your uh general apprehensions towards where the world is going and that is all like fair but at the same time don't uh not sit on the outlet like you don' just sit on the sidelines with your armchair thinking mode on and not really doing anything about it like if you like indulge with these tools see where they are not doing well again point it out like put it out there on twitter be put it out there for like the people to see it
00:08:15
Mohit
uh but don't be on the side of like people who are not engaging with this change at all and like just protesting it right like i feel like that is i don't know a bit counterintuitive it's not the best practical approach to working with these people right all of yeah so i think that's what i would say it's like uh Again, I'm foggy on the details, but the classic story of, I think, what happened in the European region when they started saying that we should not let some other company bring their oil or something like that into this country because it takes away our lamps industry or whatever, right?
00:08:56
Mohit
And then there was a whole petition of like, okay, so let's do this, but also let's ban sun right like there was someone who was like let's then why don't you just go ahead and say like we should block all the sunlight coming from this country because your lamp production is getting affected by it right like so i think that argument still stands that okay let's decide on where the guardrails should be let's decide on what the safety things we should be putting in place that's a good conversation but to say that hey let's just stop everything let's not progress like again like we saw recently openai did solve a maths problem which was unsolved for like hundreds years right who's to say that these ai tools might not be able to figure out a cure for like a disease which was previously unknown right we did see a report of someone creating a customized vaccine for their dog dog after like multiple llm outputs and it kind of worked in the favor of dog right like so those are still like incredibly beautiful things which are
00:09:55
Mohit
coming from AI LLM outputs. So to just hinder progress without like having a positive outlook towards it feels like a bit narrow-minded to me. So, but that would be my, like be open to it and all of that.
00:10:11
Priyank Upadhyay
Makes sense. All right. Cursor has been conducting. I met you in one of the cursor events. Any new events coming up where people can meet you?
00:10:25
Mohit
Yeah,
Cursor Updates and Promotions
00:10:25
Mohit
so so I think we have an incredible, like very good ambassador program running by Ben Lang, who's extremely good at what he does. And we, I think, have around, like I want to say, around more than 200 ambassadors across the country who are conducting events every now and then. All you have to do is like just go to Cursor Ambassadors, and there's a website, and you can see the meetups happening. right I'm not sure if there's anyone where in the very near future happening Cursor.
00:10:51
Mohit
Bangalore. I know there's an event happening in Hyderabad today as we speak, um but by the time this releases, it's truly already done. But again, um check out Cursor Ambassadors. If you feel like joining that and you really have something to offer, you want to host one in your city, you can reach out to them or you can reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter and we'll probably find a way on how you can do that.
00:11:13
Mohit
we also are like um because we released composer 2.5 around last week or a bit before that and we have been seeing some very positive feedback around it and just want to plug it in that if you are someone who's like feeling a bit more cost conscious and like still like unsure about okay what happens to my lately my hurts everything if i ask you to do this try composer 2.5 we have been hinted hearing like some very incredible feedback from the community. It's already like on multiple benchmarks. It's doing extremely well. It's being compared almost at the same identical level as the best LLM models in the world out there. So do try it. And over the weekends, we have like crazy, I think we have increased our usage limits by double.
00:11:58
Mohit
We also are giving like 90% off on cursor SDKs on the weekends. So there are like constantly all these very good incentives and like promos for you to like just dip your toe and see if it makes sense for you or not.
00:12:12
Mohit
There's also a referral program running for people who want have never used Courser. You will find it on Twitter. Just type Courser referral program and you will find a lot of people sharing this. But if nothing, also feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter and I'll try to find a way for you to like how you can use Courser and make it easier for you.
00:12:33
Priyank Upadhyay
Awesome. Where can people find you, Mohit?
Social Media Handles
00:12:37
Mohit
Well, I'm active on Twitter. It's @mojito_09_ also on LinkedIn, Mohit and Cursor should do the job. Super active there. Say hi. I would love to help you guys out and like you know figure out if there's anything we can do together.
00:12:50
Priyank Upadhyay
Awesome. Thanks a lot, Mohit. It was wonderful talking to you. I learned a lot of insider insights from Cursor, a perspective of a non-technical person owning engineering and tech support in a company which is growing exponentially.
00:13:15
Priyank Upadhyay
and actually touching lives, changing the way we think about future.
00:13:22
Mohit
Likewise, it was very um interesting. Like I have not done this before. i was super, enjoyed our conversation. Thank you so much for having me. I think it was very well structured and I really, it also helped me like think more clearly about what I really think about certain things. So I think it was really a good experience for me too.
00:13:39
Mohit
Can't wait for this to come out and people to see it.
00:13:41
Priyank Upadhyay
Awesome. a