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Heard on the worry, but I can confirm Graphite isn’t going anywhere. We're doubling down on building the best workflow, now with more resourcing than ever befor

Heard on the worry, but I can confirm Graphite isn’t going anywhere. We're doubling down on building the best workflow, now with more resourcing than ever before!

zeroonetwothree 9mo ago
We’ve heard this many times before with other acquisitions so don’t be upset if people are a bit skeptical.
firloop 9mo ago
Supermaven said the same thing when they were acquired by Cursor and then EOLed a year later. Honestly, it makes sense to me that Cursor would shut down products it acquires - I just dislike pretending that something else is happening.
- saraverdi7 9mo ago
  relax
  - rozap 9mo ago
    "trust me bro" (6 months later) "An update about your graphite workspaces"
    - trollbridge 9mo ago
      We're aligning our product catalogue to do what we've found is the best fit for what our customers want. We're also excited to announce a migration plan to our new service, PencilLead, and want to offer existing customers preferential pricing to our Professional Services team to assist with the migration. We know this isn't what all of you want to hear, and we've spent the last year really evaluating this deeply. At the same time, we're glad you're part of our journey to the future of agentic AI and we think you'll find it's the best alignment and fit for you, too, long-term.
- jacobegold 9mo ago
  we are a 70 person team, bringing in significant revenue through our product, have widespread usage at massive companies like shopify robinhood etc, this is a MUCH MUCH MUCH different story than supermaven (which I used myself and was sad to see go) which was a tiny team with a super-early product when they got acquired. everyone is staying on to keep making the graphite product great. we're all excited to have these resources behind us!
  - delfinom 9mo ago
    I've seen big companies cleave off tens of millions of profitable products on a whim pretty often....
  - organsnyder 9mo ago
    Not your fault at all, but there is a ton of precedent to be skeptical that these pronouncements end up being accurate.
  - tyre 9mo ago
    Obviously what you need to say but the reality is that you’re not in control anymore. That’s what an acquisition is. If Cursor wants to re-allocate resources or merge Graphite into to editor or stagnate development and use it as a marketing/lead gen channel, it will for the business. Anything said at time of acquisition isn’t trustworthy. Not because people are lying at the time (I don’t think you are!) but because these deals give up leverage and control explicitly. If they only wanted tighter integration, they could fund that via equity investment or staffing engineers (+/- paying Graphite to do the same.) Companies acquire for a reason and it isn’t to let the team + product stay independent
  - trollbridge 9mo ago
    The biggest challenge is that an acquisition like this makes relying on the acquired product a giant risk for us, so our general policy is to stop relying on something once it gets acquired and try to migrate to something else, because it's just way too disruptive to find out a year later it's getting sunsetted and then have a shorter timeline to migrate off. It's happened so many times that it's just part of how we do business, unfortunately.
- deleted 9mo ago
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BoorishBears 9mo ago
> Cursor acquires Supermaven. > "Will the plugin remain up? Yes!" > https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven
whimsicalism 9mo ago
mhm
moralestapia 9mo ago
LOL. Just by bayesian logic this statement makes it more likely that it will go to trash.
colesantiago 9mo ago
> I can confirm Graphite isn’t going anywhere... sweet summer child.
twistedfred87 9mo ago
There is literally nothing anyone can say to convince me any product or person is safe during an acquisition. Time and time again it's proven to just not be true. Some manager/product owner/VP/c-suite will eventually have the deciding factor and I trust none of them to actually care about the product they're building or the community that uses it
forgetfulness 9mo ago
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
squeaky-clean 9mo ago
Doesn't getting acquired mean that you no longer have the authority to confirm that?

Heard on the worry, but I can confirm Graphite isn’t going anywhere. We're doubling down on building the best workflow, now with more resourcing than ever before!

zeroonetwothree 9mo ago

We’ve heard this many times before with other acquisitions so don’t be upset if people are a bit skeptical.

firloop 9mo ago

Supermaven said the same thing when they were acquired by Cursor and then EOLed a year later. Honestly, it makes sense to me that Cursor would shut down products it acquires - I just dislike pretending that something else is happening.

saraverdi7 9mo ago
relax
- rozap 9mo ago
  "trust me bro" (6 months later) "An update about your graphite workspaces"
  - trollbridge 9mo ago
    We're aligning our product catalogue to do what we've found is the best fit for what our customers want. We're also excited to announce a migration plan to our new service, PencilLead, and want to offer existing customers preferential pricing to our Professional Services team to assist with the migration. We know this isn't what all of you want to hear, and we've spent the last year really evaluating this deeply. At the same time, we're glad you're part of our journey to the future of agentic AI and we think you'll find it's the best alignment and fit for you, too, long-term.
jacobegold 9mo ago
we are a 70 person team, bringing in significant revenue through our product, have widespread usage at massive companies like shopify robinhood etc, this is a MUCH MUCH MUCH different story than supermaven (which I used myself and was sad to see go) which was a tiny team with a super-early product when they got acquired. everyone is staying on to keep making the graphite product great. we're all excited to have these resources behind us!
- delfinom 9mo ago
  I've seen big companies cleave off tens of millions of profitable products on a whim pretty often....
- organsnyder 9mo ago
  Not your fault at all, but there is a ton of precedent to be skeptical that these pronouncements end up being accurate.
- tyre 9mo ago
  Obviously what you need to say but the reality is that you’re not in control anymore. That’s what an acquisition is. If Cursor wants to re-allocate resources or merge Graphite into to editor or stagnate development and use it as a marketing/lead gen channel, it will for the business. Anything said at time of acquisition isn’t trustworthy. Not because people are lying at the time (I don’t think you are!) but because these deals give up leverage and control explicitly. If they only wanted tighter integration, they could fund that via equity investment or staffing engineers (+/- paying Graphite to do the same.) Companies acquire for a reason and it isn’t to let the team + product stay independent
- trollbridge 9mo ago
  The biggest challenge is that an acquisition like this makes relying on the acquired product a giant risk for us, so our general policy is to stop relying on something once it gets acquired and try to migrate to something else, because it's just way too disruptive to find out a year later it's getting sunsetted and then have a shorter timeline to migrate off. It's happened so many times that it's just part of how we do business, unfortunately.
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BoorishBears 9mo ago

> Cursor acquires Supermaven. > "Will the plugin remain up? Yes!" > https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven

whimsicalism 9mo ago

mhm

moralestapia 9mo ago

LOL. Just by bayesian logic this statement makes it more likely that it will go to trash.

colesantiago 9mo ago

> I can confirm Graphite isn’t going anywhere... sweet summer child.

twistedfred87 9mo ago

There is literally nothing anyone can say to convince me any product or person is safe during an acquisition. Time and time again it's proven to just not be true. Some manager/product owner/VP/c-suite will eventually have the deciding factor and I trust none of them to actually care about the product they're building or the community that uses it

forgetfulness 9mo ago

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

squeaky-clean 9mo ago

Doesn't getting acquired mean that you no longer have the authority to confirm that?