Congratulations! I think that a lot of the value will be in the judgement of the maintainer about the marginal next feature (and saying no to all those other features) ... if software is a stream then the value is in what gets into the stream. That is an AI resistant value and if you can provide it for your project.

What an excellent article by a smart, humble, still-learning person!

Favorite quote:" There are a whole bunch of reasons I’m not scared that my career as a software engineer is over now that computers can write their own code, partly because these things are amplifiers of existing experience. If you know what you’re doing, you can run so much faster with them. [...]

I’m constantly reminded as I work with these tools how hard the thing that we do is. Producing software is a ferociously difficult thing to do. And you could give me all of the AI tools in the world and what we’re trying to achieve here is still really difficult. [...]"

What do you do if you don't have that existing experience? How do you build it up?

Build it up in your free time. It's extraordinarily valuable to build up those skills, and I'm not convinced that companies will allow time to slow down and build them.

Break things, and then fix them. Repeat many times.

it’s sad that i had to triple-read this to determine you weren’t being sarcastic. sad for whom? i don’t know. but the amplifier take is exactly the right one.

I kind of felt the same way reading the article! It felt so unusual to encounter someone who is both smart and humble and willing to admit they were learning. And I was happy to encounter it and sad that I was so surprised by it.

I didn't think it was sarcastic till I read your comment, upon which point, I got confused and read it twice to make sure it wasn't sarcastic.

Nevertheless, it is refreshing to see nuanced positive energy. I agree that AI is going to be the great multiplier.

This is on our wish list for a custom extension. Many users have asked for it. If someone in the community wants to take a crack at it....

Thanks! A good way to learn the platform is by building an extension.

I use Nano Banana all the time and this seems like a step up

I agree. Why would they not keep the $20 plan as a gateway drug?

What are the implications of this for Cursor being model agnostic?

Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex that has visual editing of markdown, mockups, diagrams, code with your agents with WYSYWIG diffs as well as task management and kanban session management tied into your agents. Its got a files/plan/editing mode and an agent/sessions mode.

I had never heard of it but it looks pretty slick: https://nimbalyst.com/

Thanks!

And as of today Nimbalyst is open source!

this is true of AI in general

so cool. This whole mission makes me feel like a kid again.