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

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Post by martinald » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:06 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #94

knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model * Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is * C…

Yes I think you're right. Reinforcement learning is extremely compute heavy, which cursor doesn't have. And X.ai doesn't have the coding agent data anthropic/OpenAI has, but does have the compute.

However, one thing in AI is that while the usage goes up extremely quickly, it tends to go down just as fast. I know a lot of companies that are in the process of switching from Cursor to Claude Code, so in 6-12 months I'm not entirely sure of the data quality/quantity.

Also I think it is telling that they are calling them SpaceX not X. The X brand is absolutely toxic, especially in enterprise.

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

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Post by beambot » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

sippeangelo wrote: post #74

That's a hefty payday for a model that barely functions! Every time I run out of API credits and get kicked back to Composer 2 I feel like I'm better off just packing up for the rest of the month. I feel like we're finally at a point where you don't have to constantly argue with and constantly babysit coding models, which makes it even more frustrating when you're suddenly forced to deal with one that ignores your in…

They still just bought access to all the code you've ever fed into the model...

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

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Post by kristopolous » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

taurath wrote: post #112

kristopolous wrote: post #105

Wish I played that interview game better. I saw the success coming from a mile away (2022) but I can't vibe with people in the hire game right. It's like eye contact, smiling, facial expressions, stuff like that. I guess there's a bunch of tools to not suck at this. Anyone had success here? The AI tools say I'm great because they can't pick up the kind of problems I'm talking about.

Pretend to and/or be motivated by things other than money, that’s the strongest thing interviewers drop people from, even though they’re motivated by money to be there.

Interesting. I genuinely do not care about money.

The motivation of money is literally zero to me. Maybe that's a problem as well: they want people who Are motivated by money acting like they aren't?

I wanted in because I saw them doing exciting impactful things That's literally it.

I dunno. I've been struggling with this for decades

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

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Post by cubefox » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #94

knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model * Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is * C…

You forgot to consider whether all this is worth $60B.

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

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Post by FpUser » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

ellisv wrote: post #100

cyberax wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JetBrains is crying in the corner...

I honestly can’t believe how poorly JetBrains has done. I used to love PyCharm but now it’s so far behind. I still use DataGrip but it is absolute dogshit when it comes to agentic coding.

I use JetBrain's all you can eat subscription that comes with their Junie coding agent which includes some free tokens to cover my coding needs. I then top up tokens on on-need basis. Costs me about $100 / month in AI tokens (well I bill my clients for that separately so do not really care bout the price). All works as a charm. I mostly use their CLion, Webstorm and PyCharm IDE's for development, sometimes other as well. All in all dev experience is excellent and far exceeds that of Cursor I was trying to use for a while.

Not sure what problems people here have with JetBrains offerings

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #94

knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model * Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is * C…

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

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Post by SwellJoe » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

lol. Top business genius being a genius again, I see.

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

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Post by pixelpoet » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

jacobedawson wrote: post #116

yungbeto wrote: post #109

Why would Elon do this if he knows full well the names X-Code and Codex are already taken?

Best I can do is CurXr

The whole thing is Curxed

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

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Post by 542458 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

beambot wrote: post #132

sippeangelo wrote: post #74

That's a hefty payday for a model that barely functions! Every time I run out of API credits and get kicked back to Composer 2 I feel like I'm better off just packing up for the rest of the month. I feel like we're finally at a point where you don't have to constantly argue with and constantly babysit coding models, which makes it even more frustrating when you're suddenly forced to deal with one that ignores your in…

They still just bought access to all the code you've ever fed into the model...

Cursor very reasonably had a “no retention” checkbox available to everyone, including those on free plans.

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

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Post by silisili » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #94

knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model * Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is * C…

> largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true'

Hey now, don't forget about it's super important other use, taking innocent photos of people and regenerating them in less clothing and compromising positions.

I'm sad that I even know that.