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Martin Casado explains that Cursor resisted the consensus path of building a simple VS Code plugin. Instead, the team built a full VS Code fork, betting that the interface between human and model was the critical product differentiator.
Matt Bornstein highlights the skepticism Cursor faced when competing directly against Microsoft, which owned VS Code, GitHub's 100 million developers, and OpenAI's model weights. Despite this massive distribution advantage, Cursor's superior speed and product quality allowed them to win over developers.
Jack Mallers accesses OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese open source models within a VS Code developer environment. He uses Mac Whisper for speech-to-text and shifts work to cheaper Chinese models for low-stakes tasks.
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