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Opinion
Dylan Field: Figma does not view Cursor as a competitor
“I really don't think of Cursor as a competitor. I think of them as someone that, I mean, we just launched our MCP server to explicitly make it so that you can get your designs into Cursor and Winsurf and all these other, and VS code, you know, all these great …”
Dylan Field Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 32:37 Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
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Truell: Cursor switched to forking VS Code to focus on AI features
“We thought that, you know, VS Code had been developed over the course of 12 years, was one of the earliest TypeScript projects had lots of people on it. Thought, oh yeah, of course, you can kind of spin something up that's just equivalent for the world in, in …”
Michael Truell Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 15:26 Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
Opinion
Lu Roasts VibeFlow's UI as Raw, Disjointed AI Generation
“This is almost like a vibe coded VS code. That's just pure AI generated. You know, there's not even like a, like not even say you're not using chassis or whatever. Like it's just raw AI.”
Rio Lu Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 33:05 Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
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Truell: Cursor originally built a custom editor before forking VS Code
“We actually initially started by building our own editor from scratch, obviously using lots of open source technology, but not, you know, basing it off of VS code, kind of like how browsers are based off of Chromium. It was a little bit more akin to building, …”
Michael Truell Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 26:25 Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
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Nadella names VS Code and Excel as his favorite software products
“If somebody asks me what's my favorite product, it's always, you know, VS code is one and the other one is Excel.”
Satya Nadella Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 39:17 Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
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