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elon musk just revealed the most honest breakdown of how he actually built his empire TL;DR; his biggest successes came from desperation and closed doors, not grand vision or natural talent He was literally too shy to talk to anyone at Netscape, so he started his own company expecting it to "probably fail" full notes below: 5 insights on his pragmatic origins and the future of AI 1/ "I didn't originally think I would build something great." Elon Musk's first venture, Zip2, was born not from a grand vision but from pragmatism after he was unable to get a job at Netscape. 2/ "I ended up being chief engineer... because I couldn't hire anyone." Musk’s technical leadership at SpaceX was a role he took by default, not by design. 3/ "Internet guy, AKA fool, is attempting to build a rocket company." Musk recalls the dismissive narrative he faced when moving from software into hardware. 4/ If it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure." When discussing the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)—which he defines as being "smarter than any human at anything" Musk offers a startlingly brief timeline. He states that he thinks we are very close, predicting that if ASI doesn't arrive this year, it will happen “next year for sure.” 5/ "We are the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence." Musk presents a stark view of humanity’s future cosmic role, predicting a time when collective human intelligence will be “less than 1% of all intelligence.”

MIT paper summarized: People are scared of automation because of learned helplessness. Not job loss.

Reddit Co-Founder and CEO Steve Huffman on what it takes to scale and re-scale a business (1/2): Youtube: https://lnkd.in/grbD_U6d

The future of coding won't be in an IDE, it'll be a TikTok feed. OpenAI’s Codex team explains their vision for agentic work.

Cursor's CTO and Co-Founder Sualeh Asif goes under the hood to talk about the infrastructure that delivers a product experience. Very informative video, fun to listen to, a shared lived experience in a war room brings you closer as a team as few other experiences can!

The best AI coding assistants aren't just programmers; they're archaeologists, digging through a codebase's history to understand its unwritten rules. This is just one of the frontier ideas from a raw, unfiltered technical meeting with the minds building Cursor Their conversation reveals the esoteric, foundational problems facing AI today. Here are the 7 most powerful insights from their discussion:

The Anthropic & Cursor Playbook: How they're building the future of coding & why your role is about to change: