| Basically...but, no, I mean they have some features that provide UX around prompting an LLM and then taking the output and using it to edit files for you. It's a "quality of life" or productivity tool. It's useful and has SOME value. Just not enough unfortunately. This is history repeating itself. How could a company that raised so much money possibly compete with another that has the same ... arguably better ... product for less? Marketing budget? Hype? First to market? Sure. Absolutely. All those things do fade though. We've seen this movie before. Remember Sublime Text? Remember what happened when Atom and VS Code came along? Fortunately Sublime Text didn't over raise (if they raised anything at all, I can't remember). Point is, people catch on and save money if they can. So they will do the same with Cursor. Use open source editors that have the same features...better ones even. I'll argue that Roo Code is much much better than Cursor. I even like Windsurf better to be honest, but I wouldn't pay for either. I'll support open-source and save my money to pay the LLM. Cursor is about to go the way of Sublime Text or Notepad++. Might keep some cult following, but it's market share will drop off a cliff. It's ok. Their investors don't care! This was all to get people to use LLMs more. Their investors are fine with the sacrifice. That's all it ever was. |