Y-Combinator

Introduction In a landmark keynote delivered at AI Startup School in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla and a leading figure in artificial intelligence and deep learning, laid out a compelling vision for the future of software. Drawing on his extensive experience at Stanford, OpenAI, and Tesla, Karpathy argued that software is undergoing a profound transformation—one that is as fundamental as any since the dawn of computing itself. ...

Building software is hard. But what if the very act of coding could be replaced by something better—something that lets you simply describe what you want, and it gets built? In this in-depth conversation, Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, reveals the ambitious vision driving one of the fastest-growing startups in AI-powered coding. From early pivots and lessons learned to the deep challenges of building superintelligent AI agents, he shares a compelling perspective on the future of programming and the irreplaceable human element of taste. ...