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Re:Cursor 1.0 by echelon on Thursday June 05, 2025 @02:18AM (#44188818)
> It makes sense for them to subsidise usage to capture market share in the short-term with the expectation that servicing their users will cost them less in the future.

Switching costs are zero and software folks are keen to try new things.

Re:Cursor 1.0 by pbhjpbhj on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:21AM (#44189566)
The time it would take me to switch IDE and work process and learn the best prompting style and idiosyncrasies of a new model (and do some testing to build confidence) would be half a day, at very least.

That makes the opportunity cost of switching significant.

(I'm not really a coder/programmer/engineer).

Re:Cursor 1.0 by jama211 on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:32PM (#44228436)
Half a day is not much at all