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dubeye · 2026-04-22T08:19:36 1776845976

Because of user count? Same was said about instagram. with all due respect, devs don't seem to understand business

jcelerier · 2026-04-22T10:25:21 1776853521

Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences.

Reminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exists in 2026 but i'm still happily using rsync and mailing things around because dropbox has just absolutely never worked reliably for me, unlike my 2007 gmail account.

Likewise, if it were up to me, instagram and any business whose business model revolves around ads would be banned (because ads would be banned because advertisement is harmful in general).

dubeye · 2026-04-22T10:31:21 1776853881

It's fine to care about different stuff, but if you want to understand the valuation of a company, then your experience only goes so far. it's not going to make any sense unless you broaden your scope of interest to the metrics that impact valuation.

jcelerier · 2026-04-22T10:40:23 1776854423

I don't read OP's post we're talking about ("What's crazy is that a company [...] could be worth more than $60B...") as not understanding, but as disagreeing that our world should work in such a way where this state of affair is even remotely considered acceptable

dubeye · 2026-04-22T10:46:17 1776854777

It's an interesting idea that society should somehow prevent companies valuation being linked to how many people use their product.

Unsure how it would work in practice.

matthewdgreen · 2026-04-22T17:47:35 1776880055

Are you using the same AI engineering tools you were using 2-3 years ago? 1 year ago? I'm not. Without a network effect, capturing revenue is hard.

dubeye · 2026-04-22T18:52:01 1776883921

My use is not relevant. It's not ideal to extrapolate from your own personal habits. cursor's user volume and growth is the important thing

i_think_so · 2026-04-22T08:43:48 1776847428

But do devs know a which IDE is better? That seems to be a rather important question here.

dubeye · 2026-04-22T08:46:05 1776847565

It's not 'the' most important question.

alvis · 2026-04-22T08:30:50 1776846650

Who are the users? I haven't seen many pro users using cursor

freehorse · 2026-04-22T09:29:14 1776850154

Companies. Single devs can jump around IDEs and TUIs more easily but that’s not what companies tend to do.

dubeye · 2026-04-22T08:33:21 1776846801

  you've formed an opinion on the value of the company without knowing how many users it has? Kind of proves my point, no?

dubeye · 2026-04-14T14:32:19 1776177139

The person at the desk told the author this?

Interesting how unquestioning the responses are that this isn’t engagement bait

dubeye · 2026-04-07T06:35:18 1775543718

Advertising works

dubeye · 2026-04-07T06:33:50 1775543630

It’s easy to learn it’s just boring. Spend half your time marketing from day one. Be strict about it

dubeye · 2026-03-28T23:47:08 1774741628

A good habit is to ask for devils advocate opposite reply

dubeye · 2026-03-21T16:41:45 1774111305

That’s a separate excercise in most cases. Obtaining the cert is it’s in excercise and not sticky a security excercise

dubeye · 2026-03-21T16:40:02 1774111202

I’d be amazed if the companies were entirely oblivious to this.

In my experience it’s we know that they know that we know that they know …..

dubeye · 2026-03-10T17:23:35 1773163415

Building software is only a small part of any endeavour, be it a website, a PR stunt or a career.

there is no shame in just doing the building software bit. but it does sound like you've built it up to be more than it is

dubeye · 2026-03-06T20:33:10 1772829190

I'm an amateur and would never let AI touch a live database....

dubeye · 2026-03-05T11:16:21 1772709381

It doesn't feel like speech recognition has been improving at the same rate as other generative AI. It had a big jump up to about 6% WER a year or two ago, but it seems to have plateaued. Am I just using the wrong model? Or is human level error rate, some kind of limit, which I estimate to be about 5%.