Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth
This valuation for a forked product with no moat and every LLM provider wanting to take this business. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/04/cursor-is-reportedly-raising-funds-at-9-billion-valuation-from-thrive-a16z-and-accel/
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth
it is pretty great though and as much as I want to use Zed, I just have a better groove with Cursor.
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Conway
@conway
Thereβs more than just forking & wrapping for these products - Windsurf for example works differently and in a way I like more
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caz.eth
@caz.eth
If devs spend their days getting used to and learning their tools they probably have a moat. Maybe not as strong as a social network but it is probably something.
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Christian Montoya π¦
@m0nt0y4
The moat is the UX, and Cursor has good UX
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rskagy.base.eth ποΈπͺ
@rskagy.eth
First mover advantage
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