🔗 You should never build a CMS

We're just going to call it: up until recently, cursor.com was powered by Sanity as its CMS.

Then Lee Robinson sat down and spent 344 agent requests and around $260 to migrate the content and setup to markdown files, GitHub, Vercel, and a vibe-coded media management interface.

He did a great write-up of the process on his blog. He was classy and didn't name us.

Of course, when a high-profile customer moves off your product and the story resonates with builders you respect, you pay attention.

The weird twist here is that we sort of agree with Lee’s take. He has a lot of great points. The conversation around complexity and abstractions that a headless CMS brings reflects real frustration. The way things have been done for the past decade deserved criticism.

But Lee's post doesn't tell the full story. We see what people are trying to solve when it comes to content every day. We live and breathe this CMS stuff. So let us add some context.