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This is David Wetterau's blog. I live in New York City and work as a Software Engineer at Cursor. I previously worked at Airtable on new user-facing product features, new product verticals, and on all-sorts-of AI things. For many years before that, I worked at Dropbox on the distributed systems that store and sync files and folders for millions of users.
Posts
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AI Coding Summer 2026
The way I wrote code completely changed around the beginning of this year, which I wrote about some back in March. I noticed it first on side projects - where I found that fully vibe-coded apps were just as good as my old side-project attempts, as long as I code reviewed the parts such as the interfaces and data models. Anything outside of those it stopped making sense to sweat over, since a full re-implementation is so easily attainable.
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Coding agents are no longer interns
Last year, I wrote about how LLM coding models at the time were capable of autonomously working at small, simple tasks, like those that you would scope out and assign to an intern. Since I wrote that about 9 months ago, both the models and my usage of them have evolved dramatically.
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2026 Goals
My historical success rate on New Year goals is not very high, but over the years I’ve made some pretty great improvements to my life from them. Maybe by writing them down publicly, I’ll have a better chance of following through this time! If not, it will at least force me to reflect on them if they don’t work out.
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New job @ Cursor
In September, I left my job at Airtable. I worked there for three years on product initiatives including new visualizations, new product lines, new platforms, and ultimately AI features that helped people build Airtable bases and interact with Airtable in new ways.
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Digitizing my handwritten journal entries (part 2)
This is the second post in a series about how I’m converting my handwritten journal entries into digital text. You can read the first post here.
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