It’s the exact opposite. They are incurring a huge amount of risk with this.
6 hours ago most users didn’t have access to this feature at all. Now we have $4-8 of raw token credits a month to use on a well-built feature.
I’m paying $9 a month with the annual subscription, and it was worth it just for Search. Now they’re giving me $17 worth of value for the same price.
Their margins must be razor thin, and they’re only able to offer this much value because they’re counting on most people not using all credits. If everyone did, or if they gave rebates, they’d go out of business.
The other point of view is that they are now forcing users to pay for both search and AI, even if they do not want to use or fund the development of the later.
You used to be paying 9$ for search, now you are paying 9$ - x for search and an unknown amount for AI.
This take is inconsistent. Lobbying is perfectly legal, so Intuit isn’t being evil, just being rational.
Companies, like people, can be evil while not committing any crimes. Intuit is not even that evil when compared to most larger companies in the US. We only remember it exists during tax season.
On the few times I've used Cursor or Claude Code for tasks beyond simple tests or features, I found myself spending more time correcting their errors than if I had written the code from scratch.
I like Cursor and use it daily, but none of its models are even close to being able to take nontrivial work. Besides, it quickly gets expensive if you’re using the smarter models.
IMO these AI tools will become to software engineers what CAD is to mechanical and civil engineers. Can they work without it? Sure, but why would they?
This is because Cursor is not sending the full context even when you drag and drop things inside the chat box.
I started getting worse results from Cursor too. Then, Gemini 2.5 Pro dropped with 1M context, I repomixed my project, popped it into AIStudio, and asked it make me prompts I can feed into Cursor to fix the issues I have.
Gemini has the whole picture and the prompts it creates tell Cursor which items to change how.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good. It is(was?) a very useful and important system.
Trump must be receiving a lot of emails from companies wanting to fill the void, and I bet the Trumpiest of them all is going to be awarded a contract worth 10x the budget CVE had, and do a much worse job.
The situation is so absurd that I’m starting to believe the entire Musk vs. Navarro feud was just a ploy, and they’re all popping champagne bottles together now.
Trump posted on social media this morning that it was a great time to buy. A couple of days ago, he said people should be buying low and that it was a great time to get rich.
I’m convinced this was his plan all along, and his friends were all in it.
that’s exactly how investments work. you build out something or fund the building out of something and then some of the returns are repatriated to the investor.
in this case, you invest in building out a compliant and easy money transfer service. in other cases, you invest in a toll road, etc. etc.
This take is at best outdated and at worst disingenuous.
Brazil’s democracy was threatened by an actual authoritarian with oligarchical ties during Bolsonaro’s presidency, but its institutions resisted, and he was democratically removed. Now he, his minions, the aspiring oligarchs, and the insurrectionists who attempted their own “January 6th” are facing real consequences — including jail time.
You can’t say the same about the US and its actual oligarchs.
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