CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor — the AI-powered code editor that became the fastest-growing developer tool in 2024 by integrating large language models directly into the coding environment.
Built Cursor as the first mainstream implementation of LLM-assisted code editing at the IDE level — demonstrating that AI could be a genuine pair programmer rather than an autocomplete tool — triggering a wave of AI coding tool adoption.
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