VS Code

4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 21, 2024 by Amjad Masad · across every show →

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Nov 21, 2024 neutral

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Masad: Cursor requires a separate runtime and deployment environment

“Cursor is a fork of VS code that's made that has really awesome AI tools, but that's an editor. You still need run time. You still need a deployment environment.”

Amjad Masad Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 9:23 Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Apr 20, 2025 negative

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Mohan: VS Code is not very extensible compared to JetBrains

“JetBrains is actually a very sort of extensible product in a way that VS code is not. VS code is not very extensible.”

Varun Mohan Apr 20, 2025 ▶ 39:54 Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

Apr 20, 2025 negative

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Mohan: VS Code limitations forced Codeium to fork it and build Windsurf

“So VS Code, which is a very popular IDE, had a ceiling for the AI capabilities we could showcase our users. And because of that, we decided to go out and fork VS Code and build our own IDE with some of these new agentic capabilities”

Varun Mohan Apr 20, 2025 ▶ 7:42 Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

May 1, 2025 neutral

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Truell: Cursor's first prototype was built from scratch, not on VS Code

“The first version of Cursor was hand rolled. We now we use VS Code kind of as a base, like many browsers use Chromium as a base and it worked off of that. To begin with, we didn't, and built the prototype of Cursor from scratch, and that involved a lot of work…”

Michael Truell May 1, 2025 ▶ 24:51 The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell

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