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A worthy Cursor competitor

Windsurf: An agentic IDE

Windsurf is an AI code editor that shares a lot of similarities with Cursor, and at first glance, it might be hard to tell the difference between the two. However, Windsurf excels with its ability to easily search your codebase and identify what’s relevant, and I prefer its approach of directly... See more

Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

My take on OpenAI is that both of the following are true:

• OpenAI currently offers, by far, the best product experience of any AI chatbot assistant.


• There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble.

Some quick exercises to counter these tendencies:

1. Pay close attention to when your pattern-sensing radar goes off and you start congratulating yourself for seeing something you've seen before. Why? This is often a signal that you might be overgeneralizing.


2. Write down where you've worked and for how long, compare those contexts, and ask yourself,

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