alt Hacker NewsIf this isn't a damning indictment of Cursor, I don't know what is. Perhaps it will be the death knell.
What value is this VS fork actually adding given today's advanced harnesses? Surely whatever benefits it offers are not worth the risks going forward.
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Aboutplants • yesterday at 2:27 PM
Seeing as SpaceX owns Curser, I’m surprised there wasn’t a hack on SpaceX… Yet
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bhouston • yesterday at 6:11 PM
I realized this earlier this year and dumped Cursor for just vscode along with 20x subs to Claude and OpenAI. Much cheaper and nothing of value was lost.
sunaookami • yesterday at 2:26 PM
>Perhaps it will be the death knell
People said the same thing about SolarWinds, Lenovo (Superfish), CrowdStrike... Nothing will happen.
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nikanj • yesterday at 2:23 PM
I believe the value add was $60bn in just 4 years https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sytaylor_wild-cursor-just-sol...
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Cursor was the first AI coding tool I used that had a "wow" factor and got me to switch over from typing out most of my code to having AI write most of it. But then when I used Claude Code for the first time, I never went back to Cursor.
I can see the value in a world where you still want to be a bit more hands-on with your code, but that didn't feel worth paying for anymore. Now if I want to be hands-on I actually prefer a minimalist editor with no AI features at all, while agents run in my terminal.