@michael_chomsky: I'm actually not sure how this happened. Cursor was extremely well positioned yet the Codex app is objectively better f…
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Industry analysts note that Cursor has fallen behind OpenAI's Codex app, attributing the shift to superior software and unbeatable pricing from OpenAI.
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I’m actually not sure how this happened.
Cursor was extremely well positioned yet the Codex app is objectively better from a software point of view.
But it wouldn’t matter because the OAI prices are unbeatable so even if Cursor software was 2x better I’d still use Codex.
Evis Drenova (@evisdrenova): The cursor fall-off is going to be studied for decades.
I don’t know any engineer who uses them anymore. Not to say that others don’t, but it’s obvious that they’re no longer on the tech frontier.
Still, a $60b outcome in 4 years is nothing to sneeze at…
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