Shawn Wang: belief

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…call out? One of the ones that, I mean, it's not an original choice, but Cursor are absolutely killing it. All the employees at Cosign love using it. And it's a really, really good example of, like, just getting, like, UX right, basically. Like, putting the LLM in the right place, and letting it allow you, and getting out of the way when you don't want it there, and making it familiar, because it's still VS Code, and all these things. They've, yeah, they've done an amazing job, and I think they just raised a round, so congrats they're doing amazing work. The decision to fork VS Code, I think, was controversial. You guys started as a VS Code extension. We did, yeah. Many, many, many people did that, and they did the one thing that No one wanted to do the bravery. Honestly, I commend the bravery because like in hindsight, obviously it's paid off, but at least for me in the moment, I was one of those people being like, is that the people going to do that? Are people going to download that? And yes, obviously they are like, sure, doing the hard thing, which is having worked on genie recent, you know, for the past eight months or whatever, as taxing as it's been on us, like one of the main things I have learned from this is like, No matter how small you are, how much resource you have, just like try to do the hard thing because I think it has the biggest payoff.…

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