Why Does Caring About Cursor Mean Staying in the Product?

Ryo Lu says caring about Cursor means staying in the product constantly, which is the difference between doing software as a job and building something you really care about. You start from your own pain points, your own habits, and a tool that flows with how you think and makes you happy. The work then grows into solving problems for people like you.

Everyone who started Cursor was a software engineer who loved programming and loved making tools. They needed something that fits AI better and takes advantage of what the models have when the models are put with coding: the right interaction and the right way to do the thing. They built Cursor for themselves, kept going because they care, and more people who care gathered around the product.

Waiting for a ticket, finishing it, and then stopping leaves no connection, because you cannot use the product yourself. Cursor is so core that the people building it use Cursor almost every hour and every second, both to make Cursor and to have fun.