Early Cursor Engineer Departs, Recalling 'Shove the Whole File in the LLM' Demo
JohnPhamous · x · 2026-10-07
Michael Feldstein announced his last day at Cursor / SpaceX, recalling how a colleague's early demo—'what if we just shove the whole file in the LLM'—grew into work now described as 'sending AI to Mars.' A notable departure from Cursor's early core team.
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