The second top comment is my own (skeptical) comment, with 20 points at this moment. Thanks to those 20 people, I felt compelled to write the blog-post in this submission, and try to ask a bit clearer "what is going on?", since apparently we're at least 20 people who is wondering about this.

There is also clearly a lot of other skeptical people in that submission too. Also, simonw (from that top comment) told me themselves "it's not clear that what they built even runs": https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mckgw4mxoc2...

As usual, I was careful with my words:

> This project from Cursor is the second attempt I've seen at this now!

I used the word "attempt" very deliberately, to avoid suggesting that either of these two projects had achieved the goal.

I don't see how you can get to "baseless hype without a hint of skepticism" there unless you've already decided to take anything I say in bad faith.

> The top comment is indeed baseless hype without a hint of skepticism.

and he wonders why people call him a shill

accepting everything some shit company tells you as gospel is not the default position of a "researcher"

he better hope he's on the right side of history here, as otherwise he will have burnt his reputation

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