Found it in a forum post here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=120964.0

I'm itching to read more details into what this actually is under the marketing blab.

I've been in compilers, storage, and data backends for 15ish years, and had to do a little project that required recording audio clips in a browser and sending them over a websocket. Cursor helped me do it in about 5 minutes, while it would've taken at least 30 min of googling to find the relevant keywords like MediaStream and MediaRecorder, learn enough to whip something up, fail, then try to fix it until it worked.

Then I had to switch to streaming audio in near-realtime... here it wasn't as good: it tried sending segments of MediaRecorder audio which are not suitable for streaming (because of media file headers and stuff). But a bit of Googling, finding out about Web Audio APIs and Audio Worklet, and a bit of prompting, and it basically wrote something that almost worked. Sure it had some concurrency bugs like reading from the same buffer that it's overwriting in another thread. But that's why we're checking the generated code, right?

The factory must grow!

(Yes, this assumes you keep the state, and you have to pay the price of the first download + state-keeping. Yes, it's also inefficient if you just need to get the EUR/JPY rate from 2007-08-22 a single time.)

> While alphabetic keyboards typically provide autocomplete features for more expedient typing, predictive features in Chinese input methods are more crucial when using input methods such as pinyin where hundreds of characters might match an inputted pinyin syllable. For longer strings of syllables, an IME will commonly reach out over the network to a cloud-based service for suggestions if suitable suggestions are not available in the input method’s local database.

Not saying whether they should, but it's pretty easy to understand why they do it.

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