This is a YouTube video titled "What comes after code?" containing a discussion from May 30, 2025, about the future of programming and software development. The speakers explore the concept of evolving programming languages towards more human-readable and high-level representations of software logic, aiming for greater accessibility and productivity. The transcript features two speakers but does not include Lenny Rachitsky.
Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming, a very different way to build software that's just distilled down into you describing the intent to the computer for what you want in the most concise way possible. With, you know, the technology that we have today and as it matures, we think you can get to a place where you can invent a method of building software that's legions higher level and more productive, in some cases more accessible too. That process will be a gradual moving away from, you know, what building software looks like today. And so a world after code, I think it looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English. You can imagine in document form, you can imagine in kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software and you can edit that at a high level and you can point at that. And it won't be kind of the impenetrable millions of lines of code. It'll instead be something that's easier to understand, easier to navigate. But that world where the kind of crazy hard.
To understand symbols start to evolve towards something that's a little bit.
More human readable and human editable is one that we're working toward.