Two of my co-workers have the last names Dyck and Cox. I've seen others whose last name is literally Dick. And let's not forget the famous actor Dick Van Dyke who strikes out twice on most filters. I've heard several other names from other ethnicities that were straight up "slurs" by some people's standards. The only thing harder than matching a slur is deciding what words count as slurs.
I quite liked Cursor. I even tried Claude Code and found myself wanting to go back to Cursor. Unfortunately, this completely kills it for me. I will not support Elon Musk or any of his shenanigans. He is already far richer than any person should be, but he also constantly tries to manipulate the government to benefit himself to the detriment of everyone else, whether that's DOGE, or the fast track to begging added to indexes on the stock market, or burying all the investigations into Tesla. I cannot in good conscious pay for a product when I know that he is profiting from it. So long Cursor, it was a good ride while it lasted.
That prospectus didn't make anything clear. It was pictures of rockets and rubbish about "the light of consciousness". The only real information was buried deep in the middle and it showed a company with poor finances and no clear path to success. Certainly not something worth the likes of Amazon.
You pay a 3x markup to rent a server through AWS than managing your own. You pay for convenience. At shall annals that's fine, but for large companies with their own datacenters, you generally do things in house.
My wife is trying to sort something with a famous Irish airline who are well known for messing people around. She has LPA/POA for her mother but rather than the airline accepting the VCode (this is the UK) the airline are requesting to see the original POA certificate which is just ridiculous. They seem to be moving a little quicker now there is solicitor involved.
Given how much back and forth there has been it's probably cost the airline more than just refunding the amount at the first request. We'll keep going to prove a point.
I usually agree with Simon but I think he is overlooking an important factor.
There is a lot of AI usage happening not because it shows benefits, but because the business has mandated its ubiquitous use. Companies having dashboards for token usage and rewarding people for using more tokens is a real thing. I just spoke with someone today who works at Microsoft and they are required to use AI for all of their work - they have to make a special request with justification if they decide not to use AI for even a single PR. This kind of demand isn't driven by value from either the company itself or from its workers; it is the kind of artificial demand you get from make-work projects to keep people employed during hard times.
We have to wait for the hype to settle down and people start making business decisions based on results before we can really value these AI products.
I think token leaderboards are idiotic, however… many companies are requiring AI use, with by far the most likely reason being that they truly believe AI-assisted development gets (or will after the time needed to get employees acclimated) better returns.
That mere belief by companies is not enough on its own to substantiate durable market fit. Companies believe all kinds of silly things. We're looking for long-term trends, and the returns have to be real for AI development to be more than a dream companies will eventually wake up from.
I strongly disagree. I'm an engineer - I'm all about the fastest, cheapest thing that meets the requirements. I don't need Opus 4.7, even for my complex programming tasks. It costs over 10x other models available that still give good enough answers. Those smaller models are also a lot faster to output tokens, which saves me time.
Once the model gets good enough, the returns on bigger models diminishes quickly. I don't want to spend 10x the money and wait 5x the time to get answers that are equivalent.
I use composer-2 daily for complex programming tasks. It's a fine tuned Kimi 2.5 - nothing groundbreaking. I've even had reasonable success using Qwen 3.5 on my desktop GPU. Opus might be better, but it's certainly not necessary to get good results.
Every meeting, every memo, and every prototype is output in terms of the employees doing that work. Whether it's directly saleable is irrelevant. The investors base the value of their investment on the expected future value of the company, but the people being to do the work are being paid for the work they are doing regardless of what the future value of the company becomes. That is if they are paid a salary. If they are given shares, then that compensation is entirely dependent on future value.
Cursor with its tab completion. Iterate with the agent part to research, design, and plan. Let it generate boilerplate and scaffolding, perhaps with placeholders for you to fill in. Then fill in as you normally would, but with an auto-complete that uses all of your code and design docs and everything else to inform that completion rather than the limited set of info that shows up in an LSP.
I believe JetBrains IDEs have something similar too, but I don't have as much experience using theirs since my employer hasn't blessed their AI tools yet.
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