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From Printing Press · ≈10:08
“So, I'd call it BC AC, before Claude and Codex, after.”
“But, it was that Thanksgiving last year where it stopped being a toy.”
“And then I would spend like 3 days trying to get Google OAuth to work and it didn't.”
What’s in it
- Hear when AI coding tools crossed from toy to genuinely useful
- A builder's timeline: Cursor early days to Opus and Codex
- Relatable pain of losing days to Google OAuth setup
Clip transcript
right? That you can just like ship on this stuff. >> November 24th, Opus 45 shipped and a few weeks later the latest version of Codex shipped. So, I'd call it BC AC, before Claude and Codex, after. But, it was that Thanksgiving last year where it stopped being a toy. Like, I I'd been playing and building and was an early adopter of of Cursor when it first came out. And but I I couldn't build anything of value. It was like, "Oh, look, I made a weather app that kind of works." And the those sorts of things. They're like, "Look, I was able to build a small app where I can ask a question to chat GPT or to Claude." Like, that was like my >> Yeah. >> Like, and then I would spend like 3 days trying to get Google OAuth to work and it didn't. And but there was that shift, that BC AC Thanksgiving last year where it stopped being a toy and
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