> Why would they think it's a great idea to claim they implemented CSS and JS from scratch when the first thing any programmer would do is to look at the code and immediately find out that they're just using libraries for all of that?!

Programmers were not the target audience for this announcement. I don’t 100% know who was, but you can kind of guess that it was a mix of: VC types for funding, other CEOs for clout, AI influencers to hype Cursor.

Over-hyping a broken demo for funding is a tale as old as time.

That there’s a bit of a fuck-you to us pleb programmers is probably a bonus.