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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by wrqvrwvq »

AirMax98 wrote: post #10

What 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?

ai trends seem to mirror general coding/software trends but compressed. People used to edit programs with sed, but the ide proved to be more powerful from every perspective. cli tools always have their place for "power-users" and other specialized intermediate usecases like tui's, but in general the ide has overtaken every aspect of cli use and many devs hardly ever use the terminal. I suspect a similar thing will happen with ai.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by codingusuir »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18
AirMax98 wrote: post #10

What 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 Elon's desperate move to fix his weak coding problem. He recently stated he feels he is far behind in agentic coding, and that apparently that's what matters.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

#53

Post by JumpCrisscross »

riffraff wrote: post #29
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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"

It's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities.

My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

#55

Post by JumpCrisscross »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #12
AirMax98 wrote: post #10

What 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?

He's offloading the loss from buying Twitter. This is the smoke and mirrors phase.

> He's offloading the loss from buying Twitter

That already happened with xAI-X merged with SpaceX.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by sobellian »

riffraff wrote: post #29
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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"

More like "I'm going to run every possible marathon route on the Earth's road network."

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

#57

Post by ajross »

wrqvrwvq wrote: post #51
AirMax98 wrote: post #10

What 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?

ai trends seem to mirror general coding/software trends but compressed. People used to edit programs with sed, but the ide proved to be more powerful from every perspective. cli tools always have their place for "power-users" and other specialized intermediate usecases like tui's, but in general the ide has overtaken every aspect of cli use and many devs hardly ever use the terminal. I suspect a similar thing will ha…

While surely someone has done human-driven editing with sed, that's not what it's for. Remember that ed is the standard editor.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by albertwang »

dantihanyi wrote: post #7

Bloomberg reporting its an agreement to either acquire for $60B later this year or pay $10B to work together https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa...

Here’s the spaceX announcement (non-paywalled): https://x.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
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