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> The good software developers are still the good software developers

Correct. Because they know they need to use the correct tools for the job.

> If the tool really lives up to its hype then the non-adopters will fall behind

This is already happening. I'm able to out-deploy many of my competitors because I'm using Cursor.

Have you actually spent much time with Cursor? The comparison to "Jump to definition" is pretty bad. You also misspelled its name twice.



> I'm able to out-deploy

This is a very poor metric for your efficacy as a software engineer and if you optimize for this, you're gonna have a bad time long term.


You're right. MRR is a better metric. Gotten great MRR via Cursor too.


How’s your ARR?


Oh yeah, typo, I work with the Cursive IDE a lot. I've spent a good amount of time with Cursor. And I have no doubt that it provides a lot of utility. I also would agree that most good devs I know definitely adopt some form of LLM integration. I would even agree that a lot of cursive features will bleed into other editors, maybe being considered a necessity.

I just haven't made the observation that most people have switched to Cursor full-time and I also haven't noticed that those who have are on another level compared to those using their other editor plus chatgpt/copilot/etc.


> I just haven't made the observation that most people have switched to Cursor full-time

I noted that same thing in my initial comment.




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