Cursor
Mentioned in 140 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
# Cursor An AI-powered code editor and coding assistant that has become a prominent example of successful application-layer AI development, frequently discussed across podcasts as a company that has surpassed competitors like GitHub Copilot in adoption and demonstrates strong product engineering practices. The platform is referenced as a key player in the generative AI wave and is noted for building custom models and integrated development environments for developers. Podcasts cite Cursor as representative of how AI coding tools are transforming developer workflows and achieving significant enterprise traction.
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Episode Mentions
How I AI · Apr 13, 2026
Claude Cowork 101: How to automate your workday without touching code | JJ Englert (Tenex)
“Sponsor; multi-model coding platform for building with AI; host's preferred tool for collaborative AI-assisted development”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 12, 2026
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
“AI coding tool; mentioned as company powered by WorkOS for enterprise features”
Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast · Apr 10, 2026
Ep 753: Anthropic Goes Full OpenClaw, Meta Muse Spark Drops, Google Gets Notebooks and More . 7 New AI Features You can’t afford To Miss
“AI coding agent with programmatic access to Zapier SDK's 9,000+ apps via new integration”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Apr 8, 2026
DHH’s new way of writing code
“AI code editor alternative to OpenCode; DHH uses for agent-based development”
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Apr 8, 2026
Alan Waxman - Private Credit and the Modern Financial System - [Invest Like the Best, EP.466]
“Uses WorkOS for enterprise adoption capabilities”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2, 2026
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
“AI IDE mentioned as beneficiary of improved coding agent capabilities; part of broader AI development tool ecosystem”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Apr 2, 2026
Agent Skills Masterclass
“Coding tool that supports skills standard”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Apr 1, 2026
Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber’s first CTO)
“AI-powered code editor mentioned as WorkOS customer”
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips · Mar 30, 2026
Jensen Huang’s New Plan for Employees Is INSANE
“Discussed as example of company with $2B revenue run rate but high token costs to Anthropic”
AI + a16z · Mar 24, 2026
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
“AI-powered code editor that Collison uses and discusses for future development paradigms”
TBPN · Mar 20, 2026
100 Billion Bezos, SMCI Fully Sends GPUs (To China), Reddit CEO Joins | R.F. Kenmore, Mitch Lee, Bucky Moore, Steve Huffman, Quaid Walker, Ankur Jain, Michael Kratsios
“AI coding tool controversy over using Chinese open-source model Kimi as base for their Composer 2”
TBPN · Mar 19, 2026
Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN
“Released Composer2 coding model at 10x lower cost than competitors like Claude Opus”
TBPN · Mar 19, 2026
Samsung Invests $70B in AI Chips, The Cubanator Joins, Apple: Behind in AI, Ahead in Revenue | Mark Cuban, John Kim, Eugen Alpeza, Ari Herbert-Voss, Alex Konrad, Carl Eschenbach & Pat Grady, Jim Cantrell, Tom Hulme
“Released Composer2 AI coding model at 10x lower cost than competitors”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 18, 2026
How to Use Agent Skills
“Adopted agent skills standard alongside Claude Code and ChatGPT, creating interoperable ecosystem”
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips · Mar 18, 2026
What Businesses Get COMPLETELY Wrong About "AI Employees"
“AI coding tool with $2B ARR and 60% enterprise contracts, seen as more sustainable”

Starter Story · Mar 15, 2026
I Make $60K/Month From the Most Boring SaaS on the Internet
“AI coding tool that didn't exist when Thomas built Packager but makes development easier now”
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Mar 14, 2026
20Growth: Inside Lovable's $400M ARR Growth Machine | How Lovable Does Product Launches | How Lovable Hacks Social To Make Posts Go Viral | How Lovable Makes Every Employee a Brand with Elena Verna
“AI coding tool mentioned as example of rapid user switching between competitor products”
TBPN · Mar 14, 2026
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
“Lost senior leaders to XAI, discussed as leader in AI coding assistant space”
TBPN · Mar 13, 2026
Travis Kalanick Joins, Spotify CEO, Nikesh from Palo Alto Networks, xAI Rebuild, Apple Faces Slop Allegations
“AI coding company that xAI hired senior leaders from”
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 13, 2026
Pro-Worker AI
“Seeking $50B funding valuation; training own state-of-the-art models; CEO positioning as 'wartime' for product overhaul”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Mar 12, 2026
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
“Major customer using TurboPuffer for code search, reduced costs by 95% after migration”
TBPN · Mar 12, 2026
Dr. Alex Karp LIVE from AIPCon | Alex Karp, Dan Ives, Eric Brock, Casey Lane, Ted Mabrey
“AI coding tool reportedly raising funding at $50 billion valuation with 25% monthly growth”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Mar 12, 2026
How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
“Development tool included in Lenny's product pass that attracted fraudulent signups”

Starter Story · Mar 11, 2026
How This $250K/Month SaaS Got Its First 100 Users (Steal This Playbook)
“AI-powered code editor used extensively in Supedemo's development”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Mar 11, 2026
From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge
“Mentioned as superior alternative to GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted coding”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Mar 10, 2026
NVIDIA's AI Engineers: Agent Inference at Planetary Scale and "Speed of Light" — Nader Khalil (Brev), Kyle Kranen (Dynamo)
“AI coding tool widely adopted internally at NVIDIA”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Mar 9, 2026
OpenClaw Explained: Baby AGI, Security Threats, and How a Mac Mini Became Everyone's Supercomputer | #237
“AI coding tool that OpenClaw can replicate features from in minutes”

Starter Story · Mar 8, 2026
I Built a $10K/Month AI Agent
“AI-powered code editor used by Lancer team; enables development with minimal traditional programming”
This Week in Startups · Mar 6, 2026
Wisdom of the $TAO: the future is decentralized AI
“AI coding assistant valued at $29 billion, competing with Bittensor's Ridges”
TBPN · Mar 6, 2026
GPT-5.4 Reviews, Oil Spikes, Anthropic's TGIF | Doug DeMuro, Vincenzo Landino, Max Hodak
“AI coding company facing existential challenge as developers move to pure coding agents”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Mar 6, 2026
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents
“AI coding assistant company discussing their new Cloud Agents product launch”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Mar 4, 2026
Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny
“AI coding tool mentioned as using WorkOS and Sonar's verification services”
TBPN · Mar 4, 2026
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170B Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
“AI coding assistant reached $2 billion ARR but facing enterprise adoption challenges”
TBPN · Mar 3, 2026
Ellison's Media Empire, Ken Burns Joins, Cursor Mic Drop | Matthew Belloni, Gokul Rajaram, Nik Seetharaman, Raj Rajamani, James Everingham, Dr. Felix Ejeckam
“AI coding assistant reaching $2 billion ARR amid user churn concerns”
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Mar 3, 2026
"Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine" - Jeremy Howard
“Mentioned as example of AI coding tools and for CTO's upcoming talk on agentic IDE development”
AI + a16z · Mar 3, 2026
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of VC
“AI coding tool mentioned as example of successful developer productivity application”
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips · Mar 2, 2026
84% of The World Has Never Used AI, Here's What That Means For You
“Example of rapid rise to billion in revenue followed by customer churn”
How I AI · Mar 2, 2026
How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers | Chintan Turakhia
“AI code editor used extensively at Coinbase; Turakhia demonstrated Cursor analytics and agent mode workflows”
Deep Questions with Cal Newport · Mar 2, 2026
Ep. 394: Do I Need a Better Planning System?
“AI-powered code editor discussed in context of agentic programming tools evolution”
Big Technology Podcast · Feb 27, 2026
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
“AI coding tool losing users to Claude Code, demonstrating fragile competitive moats in AI applications”

Starter Story · Feb 25, 2026
I Built a Niche App to $9K MRR
“Referenced as example of successful developer tool making millions of dollars in the market”
AI & I · Feb 25, 2026
Meet the Student With No Teachers, No Homework—Just AI
“AI coding tool used in Alpha hackathons for building video games and software projects”
AI + a16z · Feb 24, 2026
AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power
“Example of successful application layer company building on foundation models”
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Feb 24, 2026
Dan Sundheim - The Art of Public and Private Market Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.460]
“AI coding tool mentioned as example of software disruption and WorkOS enterprise adoption”
How I AI · Feb 23, 2026
“I haven’t written a single line of front-end code in 3 months”: How Notion’s design team uses Claude Code to prototype
“AI-powered code editor used alongside Claude Code; offers hover-based fix suggestions and agent mode”
The a16z Show · Feb 20, 2026
Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding
“AI-powered code editor that Collison uses and discusses as the future of development environments”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 19, 2026
Inside AI’s $10B+ Capital Flywheel — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z
“Example of successful application layer company building own models for coding”
The a16z Show · Feb 19, 2026
Capital, Compute, and the Fight for AI Dominance
“Success story of AI coding assistant that built custom models for developers”

ACCESS · Feb 19, 2026
Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on if AI is really killing software companies
“Early customer testing Notion's custom agents and coding tool”
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Feb 19, 2026
Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
“AI coding tool company Boris briefly joined before returning to Anthropic”