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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · Thursday, September 3, 2026

Cursor's Ability to Use Custom Codecs and Data Inconsistency

Discussions arose regarding Cursor's flexibility in using custom codecs and the perceived inconsistency in data related to its usage over the past 60 days. The reliability of the '5% traffic' figure for OpenAI was questioned.

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“Well, first, it's not a total panacea, but you can bring your own codec into cursor, not for everything, but it is, it's literally and some of it is is, is artifact, some of it is real.”
Jason
“The 5% thing I'm still digesting, right? Because it is a little bit inconsistent with the other data we see of codecs over the last 60 days.”
Jason
Heard on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) — “20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN Valuation and The Race for AI Assistants | Cognition Raises at $46BN, Linear $2.5BN and Clay $7BN”, published Thursday, September 3, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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