Viral joke: 'Cursor for trading' is just buying S&P 500 with fake charts
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-19
- A tweet by @jiratickets racked up 148K views and 5.6K likes satirizing a common AI startup pattern: building "Cursor for trading" that's really just buying and holding the S&P 500 while showing users fake numbers, charts, and colorful UI dancing around.
- Quoting Scott Belsky, some argue agents are less emotional and consumer investing is a great use case.
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