The Dwarkesh Podcast

The Dwarkesh Podcast explores the future. Cursor is the coding agent that helps you build it.

Composer

Our most powerful coding model. Built for long-running agentic work and priced at a fraction of the cost of other frontier models.
A scatter and line chart comparing Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Sonnet 4.6, Composer 2.5, and Composer 2 scores against average cost per task.75% CursorBench 3.1 score70%65%60%55%50%45%40%35%30%$20$16$12$8$4$0Average cost per taskFable 5 high(default)Composer 2.5GPT-5.5 medium(default)Composer 2Gemini 3.5 FlashOpus 4.7 xhigh(default)Opus 4.8 high(default)Sonnet 4.6 high(default)Kimi 2.6Kimi 2.5

Sasha Rush, a researcher at Cursor, walked Dwarkesh through targeted on-policy self-distillation. Learn about this key technique behind Composer 2.5.

Sasha Rush explaining the research behind Composer on a whiteboardWatch Sasha Rush explain the research behind Composer (13 minutes, opens X)
Sasha Rush on the research behind Composer · 13 min
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Today
Vercel streaming SDK functionality
Analyzing codebase·dashboard-ui
Model selector dropdown
Planning next moves·stripe-landing
Implement agent window
2 models·agent-ui
Fix send button functionality
2 Files+26-12·agent-ui
This Week
Fix send button functionality
2 Files+26-12·agent-ui
Implement user authentication
3 Files+45-8·auth-system
Design responsive layout
5 Files+30-3·frontend
Set up database schema
4 Files+35-2·database
Create API endpoints
6 Files+50-5·backend
Ask Cursor to build, plan, fix...

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Introducing Composer 2.5

How we scaled training and added new learning methods.
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Composer technical report

The research and benchmarks behind the model.
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Get started with Cursor

Install, set up your editor, and run your first agent.
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