[sdwr]

Copilot has every incumbent advantage, so if Cursor is doing halfway decent in the market (which it is), it's winning by default

[lolinder]

That's not actually how unseating an incumbent works. The incumbent can adapt to the threat for quite a while if they act on it, they just have to not be Blockbuster. Copilot is showing every sign of making up ground feature-wise, which is bad news for the runners up.

[walthamstow]

Incumbent advantage of being in VS Code already? Thing is, Cursor is basically just VS Code, there's hardly any barrier to switching, so it's quite a weak advantage.

[milkshakes]

the incumbent advantage is the default distribution.

defaults matter