
Episode II: The Reality of AI Coding: Crucial Engineering Lessons From Inside Cursor
In this episode of The Root Cause, Priyank Upadhyay sits down with Mohit, who runs user operations and technical support at Cursor. They discuss how Mohit built and deployed a production-grade leaderboard microsite for 5,000 active users in a single week without a computer science degree, the "confetti" phenomenon of AI-generated code bloat, and how modern developers are using Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations like RubixKube to run deep SRE diagnostics directly inside their code editor.
