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

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

rob74 wrote: post #583
Lonestar1440 wrote: post #195

So SpaceX bought a $60B Option on Cursor, plus a bunch of services, for $10B. If strike date comes and Cursor is in fact worth less than $60B... they can move to acquire it for that price. Or just let it "expire". And if it's worth more, they get a savage good deal. If the services were worth $8B anyway, it's hard to lose. It seems less crazy to me through this lens. A straight acquisition, today, at $60B would in fa…

What's crazy is that a company that sells an IDE (that's not even a particularly good one compared to competitors like JetBrains) integrating some AI plugins could be worth more than $60B...

AI yielding such incredible cost savings. /s

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

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Post by zaphirplane »

Lonestar1440 wrote: post #195

So SpaceX bought a $60B Option on Cursor, plus a bunch of services, for $10B. If strike date comes and Cursor is in fact worth less than $60B... they can move to acquire it for that price. Or just let it "expire". And if it's worth more, they get a savage good deal. If the services were worth $8B anyway, it's hard to lose. It seems less crazy to me through this lens. A straight acquisition, today, at $60B would in fa…

3 things bug me Now why would cursor agree to that unless the offer was better than what their market valuation + acquisition premium This was a similar play for twitter by the same person

While an innovator at the time, today there are a lot of LLM coding solution, sold by model providers, model aggregators even open source ones , it’s not obvious what is being bought that isn’t a feature of vs code or one of the LLM agents ( as the dismissive saying goes )

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

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Post by neonstatic »

tomgp wrote: post #696
neonstatic wrote: post #688

Question for Musk hating people - I understand why you hate Musk, but why is doing business with Altman or Microslop any better?

Not much better but at least they're not speaking at far right rallys and lending support to fascist parties across Europe.

What really puzzles me is how years of woke insanity are forgotten / forgiven, but a nazi salute is not. Remember how Microslop employees used to start their presentations with a list of Native American tribes who owned the land their office was at? Maybe people don't read Orwell anymore... that stuff was straight out of 1984.

I see being downvoted on my question already - can people who hate Musk not see the difference between asking and supporting?

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

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Post by Sammi »

Stevvo wrote: post #619
_bypa wrote: post #328

Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.

Until yesterday I would have recommended VSCode + Copilot. They had the best pricing of any option. However the pricing was unsustainable and is therefor finished.

How's the ai autocomplete? It was unusable in November when I tried it last and went back to Cursor. Slow and when it finally did something it was just not good. Cursor is super fast and actually gives useful results. I just don't want to give my money to Elon, so I might cancel anyways.

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Post by wsddfree »

chimprich wrote: post #681
sighthrowaway wrote: post #624

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> users who haven't caught on yet If you think this of users who use cursor then I don’t think you’ve used cursor much at all.

I've used Cursor a lot. Until recently it was mandated by my employer. I can't see the attraction at all. It's a (bad IMO) IDE integration, a reasonable model (but I still generally preferred Claude over Composer), and a bunch of other tools that weren't very developed (like cloud environments and multi-agent orchestration). It's a suite of tools, most of which have superior alternatives. What am I missing?

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

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Post by Sammi »

YmiYugy wrote: post #539
zzleeper wrote: post #19

I'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)

I really doubt they'll swap in Grok. Grok seems pretty dead. Probably more likely they'll reuse the hardware for composer. If value is a concern, Codex. It's pretty hard to beat those subsidies. If you really want model freedom, Copilot is surprisingly decent value and as of right now let's you use your sub in other harnesses like OpenCode.

Codex is not a replacement for an IDE. Yes I still need an IDE.

When coding agents work they're great. When they don't I still need the IDE. They usually don't work that great when I'm working on something novel or brownfield. Which happens quite regularly.

But I definitely still want ai autocomplete. I'm not a Vim user. Coding isn't about typing for me, it's about solving problems. So a tool that does lots of the typing for me is a godsend.

So do I go for VS Code + Copilot? Because it was bad when I tried it again for a few days in November. Slow to respond and gave poor results. Cursor is snappy and gives useful results most of the time.

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Post by hamish-b »

_bypa wrote: post #328

Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.

(disclaimer: I work at ampcode)

Give the oracle at amp a go :) Our TUI is really nice as well. Get in touch for some credits.

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Post by roygbiv2 »

tristanb wrote: post #461
_bypa wrote: post #328

Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.

any IDE you like and Claude code - i have no idea why you'd want to use something like Cursor, it's time came and went.

Because cursor gives you access to tons of different models, not just the Claude models.

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

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Post by uxcolumbo »

Stevvo wrote: post #619
_bypa wrote: post #328

Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.

Until yesterday I would have recommended VSCode + Copilot. They had the best pricing of any option. However the pricing was unsustainable and is therefor finished.

I was planning to sign up to Copilot, since their pricing was per request not per token.

Has that changed now?

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