Yeah but before that happened, openai and anthropic stole their userbase because all thy did was prompting other companies models, which is easily replaceable if you see how these prompts look like
To be fair, Cursor did a lot more than just middleman to other models. Apart from all the IDE integration features, it also compiled a vector database of your entire codebase for much faster/better context fetching. AFAIK OpenAI and Anthropic still don’t have feature parity on this with their native harnesses.
xAi bought them for $60 billion dollars.
Which is wild given that in a market full of wildly unprofitable AI tools, cursor is easily one of the least profitable of all
Yeah but before that happened, openai and anthropic stole their userbase because all thy did was prompting other companies models, which is easily replaceable if you see how these prompts look like
To be fair, Cursor did a lot more than just middleman to other models. Apart from all the IDE integration features, it also compiled a vector database of your entire codebase for much faster/better context fetching. AFAIK OpenAI and Anthropic still don’t have feature parity on this with their native harnesses.
They had no moat and were eaten alive that’s my point