lightswinning
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Fuarkk if you didnt know , Musk just recently acquired Cursor making a couple of the MIT students who founded it billionares overnight, one of them being a 6'1 mogger jeet, Aman Sanger. True curry Christian grey now tbh.
At the time, tools like GitHub Copilot existed primarily as basic autocomplete plugins. These niggas realized that a plugin lives in an isolated sandbox and cannot read an entire codebase, edit multiple files at once, or fundamentally change how code is rendered. They decided that AI shouldnt be an add on or a small chatbox that helps you code , it had to be the code editor itself. This is where Cursor comes in
If you didnt know , VS code's ( popular ass code editor every software dev uses to code along w github) source code is open sourced , meaning anyone can access its source code. Instead of spending years building a text editor from scratch, they took Code - OSS, the open-source repository behind Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, and legally forked it. They stripped out Microsoftโs proprietary code and branding to create a totally independent editor binary.
Then, they went ahead and integrated early LLM's like gpt into the editor to basically create "agentic coding" wherein an AI helps software devs code directly on the editor, modifying the files, reading/editing/predicting the entire code based on the user's wants etc, makes life easier for software devs a 100x, what used to take 4-5 hours of manual coding would be reduced to pocket change hours.
They basically profited out of OpenAI's LLM developments, simply integrated it into their editor and are making bank now .
When the founders first started building coding tools, GPT-3.5 was the standard. However, the team quickly found the results to be poor for complex software engineering. GPT-3.5 lacked the reasoning capability required to map out structural code changes across multiple files or reliably fix logic
he real turning point came when OpenAI granted the Anysphere team early alpha/beta access to internal testing for GPT-4 before its public release. The jump in reasoning capability was enough for these students , allowing for a competent code editor to be finally possible.
TLDR;
A bunch of MIT students and a curry took advantage of AI early on , simply put GPT on VS code and turns into a billionare overnight.
This couldve been @Jason Voorhees if he had a better pheno , took furosemide for the bloat, pin that reta, put the fork down and got some gonion fillers and quit his boring remote softwarecel job and took the risk of creating something of his own tbh. Over
At the time, tools like GitHub Copilot existed primarily as basic autocomplete plugins. These niggas realized that a plugin lives in an isolated sandbox and cannot read an entire codebase, edit multiple files at once, or fundamentally change how code is rendered. They decided that AI shouldnt be an add on or a small chatbox that helps you code , it had to be the code editor itself. This is where Cursor comes in
If you didnt know , VS code's ( popular ass code editor every software dev uses to code along w github) source code is open sourced , meaning anyone can access its source code. Instead of spending years building a text editor from scratch, they took Code - OSS, the open-source repository behind Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, and legally forked it. They stripped out Microsoftโs proprietary code and branding to create a totally independent editor binary.
Then, they went ahead and integrated early LLM's like gpt into the editor to basically create "agentic coding" wherein an AI helps software devs code directly on the editor, modifying the files, reading/editing/predicting the entire code based on the user's wants etc, makes life easier for software devs a 100x, what used to take 4-5 hours of manual coding would be reduced to pocket change hours.
They basically profited out of OpenAI's LLM developments, simply integrated it into their editor and are making bank now .
When the founders first started building coding tools, GPT-3.5 was the standard. However, the team quickly found the results to be poor for complex software engineering. GPT-3.5 lacked the reasoning capability required to map out structural code changes across multiple files or reliably fix logic
he real turning point came when OpenAI granted the Anysphere team early alpha/beta access to internal testing for GPT-4 before its public release. The jump in reasoning capability was enough for these students , allowing for a competent code editor to be finally possible.
TLDR;
A bunch of MIT students and a curry took advantage of AI early on , simply put GPT on VS code and turns into a billionare overnight.
This couldve been @Jason Voorhees if he had a better pheno , took furosemide for the bloat, pin that reta, put the fork down and got some gonion fillers and quit his boring remote softwarecel job and took the risk of creating something of his own tbh. Over
