As someone put in the unfortunate position of building an AI IDE in three weeks, I assure you it's much more difficult than it seems. Sure, we were able to get something working with all the features you would expect, but the performance was awful. Claude Code, Cursor, and others do a lot of tweaking based on a lot of experience in order to make their systems give good results. There is more to getting good results than just using a good model.
We just started adopting Cursor over the last six months. We have at least a hundred developers using it and several more signing up every day. I'm one of them and I'm quite happy with it.
It's exactly what Nvidia is doing with everyone these days. They invest in a company with money that is earmarked to buy Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia's books show lots of investments and lots of sales - win win! Of course, it's just buying it's own products.
I hope their models improve. I used Junie when it first came out and it was okay but unreliable. I use Cursor with composer right now and I never have any issues. I sure do miss using PyCharm though.
So nice of the Economist to start off by setting the stage as a free democracy versus a murderous dictatorship. The two are starting look more and more similar each day. Which one has killed more Iranian civilians recently? Trump and Hegseth are openly committing war crimes and threatening genocide while claiming it's not even a war.
The article could have talked all about the meme war and how successful Iranian is at it without first aggrandizing the US and villianizing Iran.
You could just have said "sane". I mean does anyone who thinks about it for 5 seconds seriously conclude Iran achieving anything in this war would be good for anyone?
I have used nothing but Sonnet and composer for a year and they work fine. LLMs were certainly not unusable before and Opus is certainly not necessary, especially considering the cost. People get excited by new records on benchmarks but for most day to day work the existing models are sufficient and far more efficient.
It's all I use at work and I've yet to find anything it can't handle. Then again, I'm a principal engineer and I already have designs in mind, so I'm giving it careful instruction and checking its work every time.
If you did something wrong, obviously you won't be announcing that and admitting to it.
If you did nothing wrong but were forced out, you will likely still keep quiet because complaining loudly about your employer is really bad for your prospects looking for future employment. You may also earn yourself a lawsuit for defamation or breach of contract.
Despite the obvious loss to the world in keeping that truth hidden, it's generally in your best interest to keep your head down and move on, lest you become the target of a billion dollar corporation.
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