markjgsmith

Elon Musk [26:17]: "With Starship 3 and Raptor 3 it will be possible to have a rapidly refillable rocket with orbital refilling. Basically all of the ingredients necessary to make life multi-planetary will be possible with version 3 of Starship, which we are aiming to launch for the first time at the end of this year [...] anyone who wants to move to Mars and help build a new civilization, can do so [...], like how cool will that be? And even if you don't want to to do it, maybe you have a son or daughter who want to do that, or a friend who wants to do it. I think it would be the best adventure that one can possibly do, to go and help build a new civilization on a new planet". #

Thomas Ptacek: "Professional software developers are in the business of solving practical problems for people with code. We are not, in our day jobs, artisans." #

I’m looking at the Cursor editor, that seems to be what everyone is using at the minute because it uses AI agents. These new development workflows rely on agents doing lots of things on your behalf. All sorts of things: "They author files directly. They run tools. They compile code, run tests, and iterate on the results". Sounds amazing in many ways, but also sounds kind of dangerous.

The two things I’m worrying about right off the bat, are whether I am essentially giving a 3rd party control of my laptop, and second, am I also allowing Cursor to upload all my code to their servers? There are several security realated posts on their forum, and it seems they do upload your code but they don’t store it, and you have to trust them on that. I haven’t found any info on the editor having control of my machine. I’m going to hold off installing it until I know more about how it deals with these two issues. #