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Re:Cursor: Past, Present, and Future by CactusBlue on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:03PM (#45918239)
most likely a finetune of existing model
Re:Cursor: Past, Present, and Future by swyx on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:13PM (#45919931)
yeah its not fair to call it a finetune because finetune carries connotation of "there wasnt that much extra compute and data added". RLFT has a lot more added to it as Sasha alluded in his talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md8D8eNj5JM - the x axis is log scale, think about that

the framing here is more about "why would you start from random weights when perfectly good starting weights exist" https://www.latent.space/p/fastai

Re:Cursor: Past, Present, and Future by viraptor on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:47PM (#45919587)
It's more than that. They have both their own completion model and now agentic one. It's not a basic fine-tune, because it's faster than anything else available out there, so there's something interesting in the architecture itself.
Re:Cursor: Past, Present, and Future by SkyPuncher on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:55PM (#45919697)
As a user, I don't care.

Composer-1 is very good for routine code edits.

Claude and Gemini get pulled in for hard problems and architecture.