Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
01:27:32 · Adam Ward, Lenny Rachitsky
[01:27:32] S1: But just think about your career though, when you look back on your career of your most enjoyable times, you were a little bit over your skis. You were thrown into something unexpected that you weren't ready for, and you figured it out. And in the moment, it was a series of ups and downs, stacking S-curves. But you'll look back and I'll be like, wow, that was one of my career highlights, but you are really over your skis. [01:28:00] S0: Molly Graham, who's been on the podcast and done a couple newsletter guest posts, she has this concept she calls the J-curve, which is your best roles are just you join and then you go way down and suck at it for a while, and then you come back up and that's the best experience you've ever had. [01:28:16] S1: Yeah, Molly has gold out there, for sure. [01:28:18] S0: She's so incredible. Working on a new guest post right now might've come out by the time this comes out. [01:28:22] S1: Love it. Love it. [01:28:23] S0: With that, two valid questions. Adam, what do you want to plug? Anything you want to point people to? And how can listeners be useful to you?
01:28:23 · Lenny Rachitsky, Adam Ward
[01:28:23] S0: With that, two valid questions. Adam, what do you want to plug? Anything you want to point people to? And how can listeners be useful to you? [01:28:29] S1: I think they're one and the same. I mean, I would love people to try Cursor. I think it's incredibly exciting things that we're coming out with, and we're really proud of it. Some things in the pipeline too. I'm not super out there online. I think I'm on LinkedIn a little bit, but I really honestly try to let my work and our team speak for what we do. But I'm always down to be helpful back to the last point. So I really do get pure energy and joy from helping people. And so I know at some point that will come back in some way or form. Don't expect it to, but that's just where I get that drive for me. [01:29:11] S0: Just to plug Cursor a little bit, not only is just the design and experience of Cursor awesome, the best feature for a lot of people is you could just switch between models extremely easily. So instead of getting hooked on Codex or Claude Code, you use Cursor and then a new Opus comes out, a new GPT comes out and you could switch and just play around with it immediately versus switching the product.
01:29:11 · Lenny Rachitsky, Adam Ward
[01:29:11] S0: Just to plug Cursor a little bit, not only is just the design and experience of Cursor awesome, the best feature for a lot of people is you could just switch between models extremely easily. So instead of getting hooked on Codex or Claude Code, you use Cursor and then a new Opus comes out, a new GPT comes out and you could switch and just play around with it immediately versus switching the product. [01:29:31] S1: Yeah. There was a world where models were coming out every three or four months. We're down to a number of days between models. And people I know who love to build products want to be working with the best tools at any given time. And so our agent allows you to choose the right model. And I think for a lot of companies also cost is a rightful consideration now. And so it really comes around optimization of using the right model for the right task, and so that's just landing it to Cursor's sweet spot. [01:30:02] S0: Yeah. And you guys are also now just building state-of-the-art models built sitting on SpaceX's data centers. [01:30:08] S1: Yeah, it's amazing. [01:30:09] S0: A whole new world for Cursor, holy moly. [01:30:09] S1: Yeah. Getting to train on the world's largest data center has just unlocked our model, so it's been amazing. [01:30:16] S0: What a time to be alive. [01:30:17] S1: Yeah, it's good. [01:30:18] S0: Adam, thank you so much for being here. [01:30:20] S1: Thanks for having me.
01:30:20 · Adam Ward, Lenny Rachitsky
[01:30:20] S1: Thanks for having me. [01:30:21] S0: Bye everyone. Thank you so much for listening. If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Also, please consider giving us a rating or leaving a review as that really helps other listeners find the podcast. You can find all past episodes or learn more about the show at lennyspodcast.com. See you in the next episode.