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Basically, fraud. Low-level fraud, but still fraud.

>>emp173+(OP)
Low-level fraud? It’s used to raise billions that could have been used for other purposes.

>>emp173+(OP)
Fraud is just marketing in the 2020s now.

>>nerdpo+3y
I'm not a fan of this either but I fail to see how its much different than the happy path tech demos of old.

>>skciva+yz
The happy path was functional.

>>drawfl+a01
Mmm, as someone forced to write a lot of last minute demos for a startup right out of school that ended up raising ~100MM, there's a fair bit of wiggle room in "Functional".

Not that I would excuse Cursor if they're fudging this either - My opinion is that a large part of the growing skepticism and general disillusionment that permeates among engineers in the industry (ex - the jokes about exiting tech to be a farmer or carpenter, or things like https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L) comes from seeing first hand that being misleading, abusive, or outright lying are often rewarded quite well, and it's not a particularly new phenomenon.

>>horsaw+451
But this isn’t wiggle room, it flat out doesn’t compile or run.

>>drawfl+ug1
Yes. Very naive to assume the demos do.

The worst of them are literal mockups of a feature in the same vein as figma... a screenshot with a hotzone that when clicked shows another screenshot that implies a thing was done, when no such thing was done.