[Aurornis]

EDIT: As others have pointed out, the comment above contains hallucinations (Like the $50 billion number) and a lot of AI tells. The account doesn’t have a history of AI-like comments but the hallucinations and structure in this one are suspicious. If anything, don’t trust the numbers it cites because they’re made up.

Cursor is a team that I want to see succeed. They have stacked their company with very smart people and they’re going hard at a highly competitive market. We all win when there is more competition and more innovation.

My problem is that every few months I look at Cursor’s product offerings and maybe retry it, but it never feels like something I want to use. Part is personal preference, the other part is the fact that my combination of other tools and services just does a better job. Their biggest advantage felt like first-mover advantage when they came out early and captured market share, but at in person meetups I hear stories about companies switching away from Cursor or trying to convince their management to let them switch away. They need to come up with a compelling advantage fast, which is a hard thing to do against the other companies with their virtually unlimited budgets by comparison.

[WhitneyLand]

So, you’re wrong on two counts.

1. Evidently you’re no longer able to distinguish AI from people as the whole comment was written by a human off the cuff.

2. The numbers are not hallucinations. It’s word on the street reporting, so yes it’s speculative, but a model did not make up it up unless that’s where TechCrunch got it which is not on me.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/sources-cursor-in-talks-to...

[Aurornis]

Quoting directly from your comment:

> They’ve been highly successful so far. Raised $50B,

They have not raised $50B. The article you linked says they're raising $2B, not $50B.

The valuation is not the amount raised.

[WhitneyLand]

So I made a mistake reading the article? So what?

The point is you made two brigade style comments about my posts sounding suspiciously like an LLM and having hallucinations.

Neither turned out to be true and I think a better response would concede the point.

It may be more helpful for us to stick together as humans since we can’t always recognize each other so easily anymore.

[Survey8430]

What do you mean neither turned out to be true?

Your comment DOES sound like an LLM and it DOES have hallucinations!

Please make your humanness more recognizeable next time, don't waste readers time with posh fanboying and lazy fact checking.

[adamkeys]

Same, I kick the tires on Cursor every several weeks wanting to find they've finally crossed some chasm I can't quite explain. But every time, I bounce off the ground-truth that they're forked off vscode, which just isn't for me. I think moving agents to the center of their experience and developing a model that focuses on speed/efficiency over maximum depth is a promising step away from being a spicy vscode fork.

[whs]

My company is heavy on Cursor and I still ask them to provide me GitHub Copilot, for the sole reason that Cursor is probably the reason Microsoft had to implement technical enforcement of their TOS on proprietary plugins. Previously, you could use PyLance on VSCodium but now those plugins do not work outside VSCode anymore.

If Cursor (and every other commercial VSCode forks) didn't use MS extension store in the beginning and violate the TOS these might not have happened.

[chrisrickard]

Cursor 3 is a full rewrite. No VS Code