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The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using (lennysnewsletter.com)
3 points by simonebrunozzi 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It’s not a mystery why they’re selling it the way they are, but I think cursors popularity is probably more commodity tha. Luxury. Coding with cursor is cheaper than coding with VSCode (in engineering hours)

“What comes after code”: Michael envisions a future where programming shifts from traditional code to natural language or pseudocode, making software development accessible to non-coders while retaining precision for professionals.”

*Laughs in COBOL*

It’s interesting to me that everyone seems to think the hard part of programming is the syntax, I’ve never met a code school graduate that didn’t have a handle on the syntax.




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