• elgordino@fedia.io
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    22 hours ago

    This is the thing I don’t understand about businesses like Cursor. They take two other companies products (Claude and VS Code) and smash them together and sell the result at a loss. How is that much of a business when basically what you’ve got is something that could have been a VsCode plugin.

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      20 hours ago

      if valley had fresh ideas for profitable business, they wouldn’t go full into ai in the first place. lol

      big brained sfba ceos try to make reality in the image of scifi that they misinterpreted when they watched it 15 years ago, and go around building torment nexii. behold, disruption! (snow crash|ready player one|who knows what else)

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      19 hours ago

      It’s something that literally exists as a first-party plugin for VSCode. The Copilot Chat extension has an Agent mode for vibe coding for half the price of Cursor.

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          14 hours ago

          Copilot has Copilot coding agent too (as distinct from Agent mode in Copilot Chat. Yes, they’re different things and yes, I had to look up what the difference was)

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              9 hours ago

              With the base $10 sub you get an allowance of “premium requests” per month and I think you can pay for more over that limit, but I haven’t looked too closely at the pricing because I don’t use the agent myself because I can’t use it with my work repos.