[matchagaucho]

Credit to the early AI coding startups. They masterfully forked Microsoft VS Code and integrated frontier LLMs into a familiar IDE. Instant audience.

But it was only a matter of time before: a) Microsoft reclaimed its IDE b) Frontier model providers reclaimed their models

Sage advice: don’t fill potholes in another company’s roadmap.

[daveguy]

Re: a) how can Microsoft "reclaim" their IDE when it was forked from a fork-able open source license?

Re: b) "frontier" models can reclaim all they want; bring it. that's not a moat.