TFA is saying that it's your product that matters, as always, and that using AI can't be your moat since everyone has access to AI.

It seems cursor did a bunch of things right, from choosing to base it on an already popular editor, to the vision and specific ways they have integrated AI, to the flexibility of which models to use. No doubt there was some "early mover" advantage too.

Certainly the AI isn't their moat since it's mostly using freely available models (although some of their own too I believe), and it remains to be seen how much of a moat of any kind or early-mover advantage they really have. The AI-assisted coding market is going to be huge, and presumably will attract a lot more competition.

I'm old enough to remember when the BRIEF (basic reconfigurable interactive editing facility) editor (by Underware) took the world by storm, but where is it now?

Any other former BRIEF users/fans out there ?!