Comment by nirushiv
1 month ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that Cursor deploys a lot of “guerilla marketing” with influencers on Twitter/LinkedIn etc. When I tried it, the product was not good (maybe on par with Copilot) but you have people on social media swearing by it. Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.
> Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.
You can pretty easily disprove this theory by noting the number of extremely well-known, veteran software developers who claim that Cursor (or other kinds of LLM-based coding assistants) are working for them.
Very doubtful any one of them can be bought off, but certainly not all of them.
I tell everyone cursor is awesome because for my use cases cursor is awesome.
I've never thrown 1.5M LoC at it, but for smaller code bases (10k LoC) it is amazing at giving summaries and finding where in the code something is being done.