[firloop]

Supermaven said the same thing when they were acquired by Cursor and then EOLed a year later. Honestly, it makes sense to me that Cursor would shut down products it acquires - I just dislike pretending that something else is happening.

[jacobegold]

we are a 70 person team, bringing in significant revenue through our product, have widespread usage at massive companies like shopify robinhood etc, this is a MUCH MUCH MUCH different story than supermaven (which I used myself and was sad to see go) which was a tiny team with a super-early product when they got acquired.

everyone is staying on to keep making the graphite product great. we're all excited to have these resources behind us!

[organsnyder]

Not your fault at all, but there is a ton of precedent to be skeptical that these pronouncements end up being accurate.

[trollbridge]

The biggest challenge is that an acquisition like this makes relying on the acquired product a giant risk for us, so our general policy is to stop relying on something once it gets acquired and try to migrate to something else, because it's just way too disruptive to find out a year later it's getting sunsetted and then have a shorter timeline to migrate off.

It's happened so many times that it's just part of how we do business, unfortunately.

[delfinom]

I've seen big companies cleave off tens of millions of profitable products on a whim pretty often....

[tyre]

Obviously what you need to say but the reality is that you’re not in control anymore. That’s what an acquisition is.

If Cursor wants to re-allocate resources or merge Graphite into to editor or stagnate development and use it as a marketing/lead gen channel, it will for the business.

Anything said at time of acquisition isn’t trustworthy. Not because people are lying at the time (I don’t think you are!) but because these deals give up leverage and control explicitly. If they only wanted tighter integration, they could fund that via equity investment or staffing engineers (+/- paying Graphite to do the same.) Companies acquire for a reason and it isn’t to let the team + product stay independent

[saraverdi7]

relax

[rozap]

"trust me bro" (6 months later) "An update about your graphite workspaces"

[trollbridge]

We're aligning our product catalogue to do what we've found is the best fit for what our customers want. We're also excited to announce a migration plan to our new service, PencilLead, and want to offer existing customers preferential pricing to our Professional Services team to assist with the migration.

We know this isn't what all of you want to hear, and we've spent the last year really evaluating this deeply. At the same time, we're glad you're part of our journey to the future of agentic AI and we think you'll find it's the best alignment and fit for you, too, long-term.