Everything Steve yegge has done has been trash. That's why nobody is talking about beads or gas town. It was clear even in the beginning that it was a borderline AI-psychosis-fueled trash fire.
At the same time a lot of the stuff in this Cursor post sounds like things that Gastown was doing, albeit more sober and thought through
Agreed ... I'm not talking about the implementation but rather the idea that this research is novel.