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CactusBlue | 3 months ago

They haven't built their own editor, they haven't built their own models; what have they actually built?

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ManuelKiessling|3 months ago

Well, they delivered something that is usable and useful for me and my team, and a lot of people I know, and I guess that’s what counts in business?

CactusBlue|3 months ago

I barely use the autocomplete features of Cursor, and for agentic coding, Claude Code blows Cursor Agent out of the water. I don't think Cursor has anything that cannot be replicated in a week or two other than the first mover advantage; certainly not an advantage that cannot be justified at 30B+ valuation.

tintor|3 months ago

I've turned off Cursor's autocomplete. Every interaction with it feels like two steps forward and two steps back.

camdenreslink|3 months ago

That is all well and good, but I think it's a fair question in terms of valuation. What is their moat other than momentum?

koakuma-chan|3 months ago

Have you tried Zed? Cursor is terribly slow and buggy.

garettmd|3 months ago

I mean, they have built their own model: https://cursor.com/blog/composer

And presumably they'll use the funding to build more than just a modified VSCode.

CactusBlue|3 months ago

most likely a finetune of existing model

sorcercode|3 months ago

they are building their own editor (granted they didn't do it from scratch); they do build their own models (see composer);

they may not have done a lot of this from scratch but there's still a lot of innovation in what they're doing. they're also building a pretty fantastic product and clearly the leader today in AI innovation for IDEs.

may not be everyone's cup of tea; but i think you might be detracting some of their innovation.

warmedcookie|3 months ago

Everyone starts with some building blocks, some much bigger than others in Cursor's case.

lacker|3 months ago

Something people want, apparently!