Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding

Hello and welcome to Decoder. This is Casey Newton. I'm the founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast, and I'll be guest hosting over the next few episodes of Decoder while Neli is out on frontal leave. Congratulations, Neelai, and I'm very excited for what we have planned for you all. If you follow my work at all, particularly when I was a reporter at The Verge, you'll know that I'm a total productivity nerd.

I love productivity apps, whether it is a to-do or some kind of collaborative app or something making use of AI. At their best, I think productivity apps are the way we turn technological advancement into human progress. And also, they're fun. I like trying new software.

And every new tool brings with it the hope that this is the one that is finally going to complete the setup of my dreams. Over the years, I've used a lot of these programs, but I rarely get a chance to talk to the people who make them. So for my decoder episodes, I really wanted to talk to the people behind some of the biggest and most interesting companies in productivity about what they're building and how they can help us get things done. And that brings me to my guest today, Michael Truel, the CEO of AnySphere. You may not have heard of AnySphere, but I bet you've heard the name of its flagship product, Cursor AI.

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