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Credit to the early AI coding startups. They masterfully forked Microsoft VS Code and integrated frontier LLMs into a familiar IDE. Instant audience. But it wa
by matchagaucho 8mo ago
Credit to the early AI coding startups. They masterfully forked Microsoft VS Code and integrated frontier LLMs into a familiar IDE. Instant audience.
But it was only a matter of time before:
a) Microsoft reclaimed its IDE
b) Frontier model providers reclaimed their models
Sage advice: don’t fill potholes in another company’s roadmap.
- daveguy 8mo agoRe: a) how can Microsoft "reclaim" their IDE when it was forked from a fork-able open source license? Re: b) "frontier" models can reclaim all they want; bring it. that's not a moat.