
A teenager’s poker algorithm caught a leading AI researcher’s eye. Years later, Eric Steinberger is betting that the same patience for difficult problems can turn a coding assistant into a genuine colleague.
At a Vienna technical school, Sebastian De Ro met the collaborator with whom he would build Magic. His path from enterprise software to ultra-long-context AI is a story about how far a working partnership can travel.

For one vivid year, Supermaven made AI autocomplete feel less like a meeting and more like a reflex. Its long-context tricks now live inside Cursor, while the original plugin settles into a strange afterlife for existing users.