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> Claude Code is arguably the best tool in its category at the moment. They have the developer market locked in. I am old enough (> 1 year old) to remember whe

by blitzar 11mo ago

> Claude Code is arguably the best tool in its category at the moment. They have the developer market locked in. I am old enough (> 1 year old) to remember when Cursor had won the developer market from the previous winner copilot. Google or Apple should have locked down Anthropic.

pragmatic 11mo ago
If they had, they would have killed it. Google should be stomping everyone else but it's ad addiction in search will hold it back. Innovators dilemma...
bionhoward 11mo ago
Cursor still wins over Claude Code because Cursor has privacy mode
theptip 11mo ago
> Cursor had won the developer market from the previous winner copilot It’s a fair point, but the counter-point is that back then these tools were ide plugins you could code up in a weekend. Ie closer to a consumer app. Now Claude Code is a somewhat mature enterprise platform with plenty of integrations that you’d need to chase too. And long-term enterprise sales contracts you’d need to sell into. Ie much more like an enterprise SAAS play. I don’t want to push this argument too far as I think their actual competitors (eg Google) could crank out the work required in 6-12 months if they decided to move in that direction, but it does protect them from some of the frothy VC-funded upstarts that simply can’t structurally compete in multi-year enterprise SAAS.
- rvnx 11mo ago
  I'm not sure what is the advantage of Cursor ? It's just a VS Code plugin that sends queries to LLMs, why is it valued so much ? It's quite basic. Is there some sort of unlimited plan that people take advantage of ?
  - camdenreslink 11mo ago
    It works well, and had first mover advantage. It also is a fork of VSCode, not just an extension/plugin.
  - dana321 11mo ago
    Its really easy to use, you download, login and start working. Its a step up from copy-pasting from an llm. But claude code is on another level.
  - fragmede 11mo ago
    Fun fact! You can use the word "just" in front of anything to make is sound trivial. Isn't planet Earth just one of eight planets in the Solar System? What's the big deal? Isn't Google just a website? Take out the word "just" and think on it a little. In this case, maybe there's something to that?

by blitzar 11mo ago

pragmatic 11mo ago

If they had, they would have killed it. Google should be stomping everyone else but it's ad addiction in search will hold it back. Innovators dilemma...

bionhoward 11mo ago

Cursor still wins over Claude Code because Cursor has privacy mode

theptip 11mo ago

> Cursor had won the developer market from the previous winner copilot It’s a fair point, but the counter-point is that back then these tools were ide plugins you could code up in a weekend. Ie closer to a consumer app. Now Claude Code is a somewhat mature enterprise platform with plenty of integrations that you’d need to chase too. And long-term enterprise sales contracts you’d need to sell into. Ie much more like an enterprise SAAS play. I don’t want to push this argument too far as I think their actual competitors (eg Google) could crank out the work required in 6-12 months if they decided to move in that direction, but it does protect them from some of the frothy VC-funded upstarts that simply can’t structurally compete in multi-year enterprise SAAS.

rvnx 11mo ago
I'm not sure what is the advantage of Cursor ? It's just a VS Code plugin that sends queries to LLMs, why is it valued so much ? It's quite basic. Is there some sort of unlimited plan that people take advantage of ?
- camdenreslink 11mo ago
  It works well, and had first mover advantage. It also is a fork of VSCode, not just an extension/plugin.
- dana321 11mo ago
  Its really easy to use, you download, login and start working. Its a step up from copy-pasting from an llm. But claude code is on another level.
- fragmede 11mo ago
  Fun fact! You can use the word "just" in front of anything to make is sound trivial. Isn't planet Earth just one of eight planets in the Solar System? What's the big deal? Isn't Google just a website? Take out the word "just" and think on it a little. In this case, maybe there's something to that?