Why do we need apps like cursor?

2 pointsamanhij5d ago3 comments

I'm a Claude code and codex maxi, use both on the highest plan on my terminal and the web interface for heavy research and sometimes design. Now the whole moat of apps like cursor is multi agent orchestration if I understand correctly? And no cursor new coding model is not a moat there is no way on earth that they can compete with anthr/openai. For me I just launch claude code and tell it to run codex as one of it's sub-agents and split the work with sub-agents like half opus's and half 5.4's. What are y'all thoughts? I think any wrapper and orchestrator layer is going to 0

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rvz5d ago

The only way Cursor can justify their $50B valuation or even a $29B valuation is that they should sell the source code + prompts and outputs you send to them to the AI labs (They cannot do that for enterprise customers).

Otherwise their valuation does not make any sense.

The switching cost is practically 0 and can be replaced by VSCode or Claude Code.

kohexo5d ago

I have been wondering the same thing. Hopefully someone answers because I am curious. I refuse to leave vs code can never beat free..

Computer05d ago

Yeah cursor is basically like paying raw api pricing it feels like.

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