Sam Lessin (Slow Ventures partner) is discussing the difficulty of using AI tools like Cursor to build Garmin watch faces due to package store fragmentation.
“Cursor split the store from VS code because they want to, like, create their own ecosystem that's independent, etc. And the way it all plays out Is VS code is like, no, like the package you need to install to do Garmin watch faces. We're going to control that. Right. And so all of a sudden you realize it gets pretty hard to actually do it without VS code. So now you're using VS code instead of cursor, even though it's the same thing.”
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