
Cursor Isn't Winning the Model War. It's Winning the Surface.
Everyone's still benchmarking coding models. Cursor figured out the benchmark doesn't matter — the editor is the product, and the editor is the moat.
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Everyone's still benchmarking coding models. Cursor figured out the benchmark doesn't matter — the editor is the product, and the editor is the moat.
Anysphere's editor doesn't win on the model. It wins on a UX assumption everyone else got wrong.
It remembers what you watched. It remembers what you skipped. It remembers what time of day you cried, which is not a sentence I expected to write.
The discourse is doing what discourse does. The show is doing something stranger and quieter and worth talking about — once everybody calms down.
Real numbers from nine builders I tracked through the year. The ones nobody talks about made the most. The ones everyone talks about made the least.
Three weeks of daily driving, an external monitor it didn't deserve, and one thermal test that surprised me.
The hardware finally caught up. The software is the best Android has ever been. The marketing is, somehow, still terrible.
Seven days of silence. I came back. So did the noise. The lessons weren't the ones I expected.