In a special live episode from OpenAI Dev Day, host Andrew Mayne interviews founders from SchoolAI, jam.dev, Abridge, and Cursor. They discuss how they are using AI to transform education, web development, healthcare, and coding, sharing insights on their product strategies, technical challenges, and excitement for the next wave of agent-based AI tools.
Michael Truell, co-founder of Cursor, shares the journey of building an AI-first code editor that grew to $100M ARR in a year. He discusses the crucial pivot from failed startup ideas, the conviction required to compete with GitHub Copilot, and the lessons learned in product development, model strategy, and the future of programming in a world where software development will increasingly flow through models.
Paul van der Boor and Bruce Martens from Prosus discuss the real bottlenecks in AI agent development, arguing that the primary challenges are not tools, but rather evaluation, data quality, and feedback loops. They detail their 'buy-first' philosophy, the practical reasons they often build in-house, and how new coding agents like Devon and Cursor are changing their development workflows.