Cursor Raises Funds at $29.3B Valuation (opens in new tab)

I've never tried cursor so maybe I'm being a crusty curmudgeon, but I don't get it... Why do I need to pay a subscription for an IDE when I could just use VS Code for free, which also has AI integration now. I'm not against using LLMs to assist me, but I've had no problems coding myself and then just asking an LLM when I'm either learning a new library, need to hack up a quick snippet for a language I don't use often, or just really stuck.

I used to think that Cursor would get killed by the major AI labs owning their coding models, but with the best open source models being on par with the proprietary models, I can realistically see Cursor winning the coding AI race. Once they start shifting most of the AI workload to be on their own custom models and optimize inference for it, their valuation can justifiably go on the same growth trajectory as the major AI labs.

I bounced off Cursor. I even liked it. I just don’t want another new IDE. I changed to a copilot subscription.

I actually find the in-editor chat window to really suck. Most of my AI use is pasting code into ChatGPT and asking questions (another subscription). The killer feature of the IDE integration is just the autocompletes. I hope a local model can do them eventually.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915087

I really dislike Cursor out of principle but I'm guessing vibe coding is going to be the future, at least until the bubble pops.