Cursor CEO: interfaces are shifting from making things to supervising AI work
c_valenzuelab · x · 2026-11-07
A sharp observation from Cursor's CEO: interfaces used to be a way to make things — you touch the thing, you change it, you see the result. Now interfaces are becoming a way to monitor and interpret work — you supervise, the AI makes changes, you see the result. A concise framing of the paradigm shift from direct manipulation to reviewing agent output.
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