Why “Cursor” is being discussed
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Anthropic needs to issue a cease and desist to Cursor for claiming official “by Anthropic” extensions they don’t make or control. They would have done this in a heartbeat to any…
by dannyw · Oct 31, 2026
It is an Anthropic problem. It's also a Cursor problem.
by bagels · Oct 31, 2026
Wow, interesting issue. An issue with a VSC extension. And the path for this issue to even be a thing possibly a weakness in the way the extensions marketplace works (so frustra…
by gexla · Oct 31, 2026
Maybe the Cursor IDE compromise? It might be what got Binance. And it made a lot devs machines backdoored between Wednesday 28th Oct and whenever people decide to remove the bac…
by wafflemaker · Oct 31, 2026
Cursor is now Grok, so are you really surprised?
by mike_d · Oct 31, 2026
Sometimes I read a thread like this and I feel like I don't know what people are doing or am I the only crazy one in the world. I'm still using Composer 2.5 (a low tier model re…
by godot · Oct 31, 2026
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