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I really don't understand Cursor's 30 billion dollars valuation (half of Antropic). I use it, it's not a bad tool by any means but it's so buggy from version t
by sersi 1y ago
I really don't understand Cursor's 30 billion dollars valuation (half of Antropic). I use it, it's not a bad tool by any means but it's so buggy from version to version. Latest bug I had, it completely stopped keeping my zsh state in the terminal, I had to downgrade.
And honestly, I'm not that sure what secret sauce is worth 30 billion dollars? The agent loop? Others can do that? The autocomplete?
- causal 1y agoYeah I have to imagine it's because of user base, there's no real moat in the technology
- bfeynman 1y agonot only that but the way that openai and claude have their own foundational models/agents trained to work via CLI, which will basically always be better than just cursors gpt wrapper approach.
- esafak 1y agoHow are they trained to work via CLI? You prompt it and it returns response. Where does the CLI come into play?
- throwaway314155 1y agoHave you used Claude Code or OpenAI Codex yet?
- esafak 1y agoYes, daily.
- bfeynman 1y agofrontier labs do finetuning of their models for software dev using the terminal/cli driven style, annotating datasets to solve programming in this fashion, and fine tuning will almost always make for better performance. Cursor as mostly a wrapper is just using the underlying foundation models in their framework and orchestrating on top of that, as opposed to doing actual learnable objectives in training to make things better.
- jsnell 1y agoThat's 1/6th of Anthropic, not half.