Ex-Cursor engineer Sasha Rush announces departure
tw_killian · x · 2026-08-25
Sasha Rush, a prominent NLP researcher and former OpenAI employee, announced his departure from Cursor. He recounted joining the AI coding tool company on the spot after a coffee chat and contributing to the Composer feature the very next day, praising the team as fearless and ambitious.
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