What's Cursor's moat here? I'm a bit surprised that xAI/SpaceX needs to buy them rather than building their own VScode forked IDE or an agentic UI/CLI.
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
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#22Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#23What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
> no idea what this has to do with aerospace SpaceX is no longer SpaceX per se , but SpaceX-xAI. My TL; DR (and this is mine, personally) is its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacentres are a demand excuse for putting lots of solar panels in space. Going one level down, more Cursor use is a demand excuse for putting lots of datacentres anywhere.
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#24I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)
OpenCode and Github copilot are still options if you want the freedom to choose different models.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#25$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?
I thought Cursor has started making their own models. Did I confuse them with someone else?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you change the title?
NYTimes has updated the title "SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion"
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EDIT: Parent commenter edited out the @dang from their comment making mine appear to be responding to something not in their comment.
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#28SpaceX, xAI, Collosus data centers, next space compute, X, Starlink and soon Cursor to join 2, 3 & 4 together?
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#29What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
> no idea what this has to do with aerospace SpaceX is no longer SpaceX per se , but SpaceX-xAI. My TL; DR (and this is mine, personally) is its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacentres are a demand excuse for putting lots of solar panels in space. Going one level down, more Cursor use is a demand excuse for putting lots of datacentres anywhere.
This is like me, a couch potato, pivoting from "I'm going to run a half marathon" to "I'm going to do a marathon in under ten minutes"
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#30This is the right partnership to happen. SpaceX has all the compute but is missing the talent for training LLMs, especially on the RL side. Cursor has the talent and RL stack, but doesn't have their own pretrained base model or own their compute. Both will be on a bad trajectory without cooperating because Claude Code and Codex have gained so much momentum already.