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Cursor Compile
After Coding Becomes Free: The Bottleneck Shifts to Demand, Review, and Context
9talks1worth watching2.9hours total
What this conference was about
01Output Soars, Demand Doesn't
02Token Economics Sounds the Alarm
03Review Is the New Bottleneck
04Guardrails from Primitives, Not Trust
05Context Is the Other Half of Efficiency
06Cursor Bets on Frontier Models
07Human Value Converges on Three Things
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- Treat the LLM as 'culture dot zip': programming is turning from an industrial process into prose production, and slop already has a cure — editing.Paul Ford · Cursor CompileFor · Engineers and engineering leaders / People designing AI products and toolsAI CodingAI Product2 min on screen12 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Compress a full KV cache into "weights" in one forward pass, filling the intermediate memory layer that sits between lossless cache and fine-tuning.Cursor CompileFor · Inference optimization researcher / Agent memory researcherAgentContext4 min on screen13 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Entropy-reduction physics explains why token maxing keeps costing more for less: context is the other half of efficiency the whole industry skipped.Ben Geist · Cursor CompileFor · Agent systems engineers / Inference efficiency researchersContextAgent5 min on screen15 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Shopify's Head of Engineering on what happens after the AI writes the code: how people, review, and the org get rearrangedFarhan Thawar · Cursor CompileFor · Engineering leaders / CTOs / Senior engineersAI CodingAgent6 min on screen27 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Letting agents loose on a 600TB production database doesn't run on trust — it runs on infrastructure primitives.Sam Lambert · Cursor CompileFor · Platform and infrastructure engineers / Database ownersAgentAI ProductContextAI Coding6 min on screen26 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Uses a neural network to invent 1,024 new human-readable symbols from scratch — arguing that notation itself is part of intelligence.Linus Lee · Cursor CompileFor · AI interface designers / Representation-learning researchersAI Product6 min on screen17 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Unpacks how the word "AI" ends up governing us, and shows practitioners how to reclaim their agency over designing technology.Alane Suhr · Cursor CompileFor · AI practitioners / Technical decision-makersAI ProductEvals6 min on screen15 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Engineers ship 8x more code and demand hasn't followed — the PM's new ground is commercial value, novel vision, and bringing people along.Claire Vo · Cursor CompileFor · Product managers / Founders in the age of AIAI ProductAI Coding7 min on screen26 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Cursor's CEO on the agent-first shift, plus a first look at a frontier model trained from scratchMichael Truell · Cursor CompileFor · Tooling decision-makers / Agent workflow designersAgentAI CodingAI Product14 min on screen27 min totalNeeds your eyes