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Isn't a large user base and the data collected from those users a moat of sorts?
by alach11 5mo ago
Isn't a large user base and the data collected from those users a moat of sorts?
- AussieWog93 5mo agoHonestly the data itself is probably worth heaps even in the company itself collapses. Early attention engineering when humans were still in the loop!!!
- NitpickLawyer 5mo ago> Early attention engineering when humans were still in the loop Exactly. Cursor was the first product used by tons of devs on real codebases. Just the signal "acceptance rate" is huge and can't be easily captured w/ synthetic data.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5mo agoA moat is when you have something other's can't easily get. Every MAG 7 / FAANG company already has more users and more data... That's not a moat. That's traction.
- wilg 5mo agoThat's not X. That's Y.
- DonHopkins 5mo ago[flagged]
- uxcolumbo 5mo agoBeen a bit out of the loop. What's wrong with using very short sentences like 'That's not X. That's Y.'?
- arcanemachiner 5mo agoCommonly used phrase by LLMs. Gives people slop vibes these days.
- Kiro 5mo ago"It's not X, it's Y" is a good way to illustrate a point. Same goes for many other common LLM phrases. It's used because it's effective.
- monsieurbanana 5mo agoHuh. I associate it with LinkedIn slop, which is probably 100% ai nowadays but they certainly didn't wait for llms.
- LinXitoW 5mo agoThey don't have the same quality and kind of data. For example, Claude Code might have general conversation flow data for implementing feature X, but Cursor has users individual editing actions AND the chat flow. Which line did the user manually edit after the agent did it's thing? What's the commit message (if done manually)? Stuff like that is worth it's weight in gold.