VS Code
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 10, 2025 by Michael Truell · across every show →
Everything said about VS Code, oldest first
Nov 10, 2025
Truell: Cursor originally built its IDE from scratch before forking VS Code
“We didn't even fork VS code. We actually built from scratch. So we built IDEA from scratch that we used ourselves as a daily driver. Couple more weeks to actually get into other people's hands. And then in the span of total, I think a couple of months, we had …”
Nov 10, 2025
Truell: Founders knew developers would switch editors because Copilot converted them
“So at the time, it's not super controversial now, but at the time, people just thought it was very weird to do an editor. Whether it was a fork or not a fork they said you can't get people to switch their code editor. They're too tied to it, which we knew was …”
Aug 27, 2026 negative
Casado: Product-First Startups Should Build Standalone Apps Over Plugins
“Like if you really believe in the product, you would never do a plugin because then you're part of somebody else's product. If you really believed in the product, you wouldn't do enterprise early, you do it later, because the product itself is the kind of go-t…”