Overview
- Michael Truell cautioned that “vibe coding,” where developers accept AI-written code without reading or understanding it, risks weak foundations for real-world systems.
- Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference, he warned that unreviewed AI output can become fragile, hard to scale or secure, and a source of costly technical debt.
- Truell said AI should assist rather than replace engineering rigor, with humans remaining responsible for design decisions, code reviews and testing.
- Cursor’s approach embeds generative models in the IDE to use project context for multi-line autocomplete, full function generation, debugging and error explanations.
- Coverage notes rapid uptake of coding assistants such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot, with experts flagging security and reliability concerns, while Fortune reports Cursor has reached about 1 million daily users, $1 billion in annualized revenue, 300 employees and a $2.3 billion fundraise at a $29.3 billion valuation.