Perhaps I’m missing something, but isn’t Cursor simply a VSCode fork with some AI extensions integrated into it? Hate aside, what is the actual technical value of the product?
They don’t care at all about the vs code fork (probably his colossus data center with 89% vacancy can vibe code a clone in a few hours)
They care about the subscribed users and how they can enshittify their experience by removing access to Claude opus and introducing grok the Nazi vibe coder
imo not at all, like for the recent github copilot enshittification
users will groan and complain for a month then move to a different VS code fork, one year later nobody would even be able to remember the shape of the icon
Perhaps I’m missing something, but isn’t Cursor simply a VSCode fork with some AI extensions integrated into it? Hate aside, what is the actual technical value of the product?
They don’t care at all about the vs code fork (probably his colossus data center with 89% vacancy can vibe code a clone in a few hours)
They care about the subscribed users and how they can enshittify their experience by removing access to Claude opus and introducing grok the Nazi vibe coder
Makes you wonder how sticky their product is though. I would just move to another product that has Claude if I suddenly had to use Grok.
imo not at all, like for the recent github copilot enshittification
users will groan and complain for a month then move to a different VS code fork, one year later nobody would even be able to remember the shape of the icon