I don't think Cursor was _that bad_ in it's time. But the 'psyop' here is that anyone is using an AI-IDE going forward at all. I see people who say they are still using them and are so excited, but then I talk to engineers I actually know and it's all CLI tools.

FWIW, cursor (company) has a CLI tool/harness similar to Claude Code called agent.

It’s existed for a long time, is quite good, and it is under-marketed (ironic for this thread).

(Double-ironic disclosure… I work for Cursor. If you have ideas to make agent better hmu)

> I don't think Cursor was _that bad_ in it's time. But the 'psyop' here is that anyone is using an AI-IDE going forward at all. I see people who say they are still using them and are so excited, but then I talk to engineers I actually know and it's all CLI tools.

This is just the old "surely nobody actually likes Lady Gaga, all the people I actually know think her stuff sucks, it's just all bought and paid for" reasoning trap all over again...