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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by heisgone »

Klathmon wrote: post #40
PUSH_AX wrote: post #7

In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.

I've been pretty damn happy with codex and vscode. Between the codex app, cli, and vscode extension there are options for most ways of working

Codex UI is great. It just make sense for an AI tool.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by BoumTAC »

yanis_t wrote: post #42

$60b is crazy. Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts. They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it. If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI. What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

Compose 2.5 is the default model in Grok Build. And it's quite incredible. It's comparable to Opus 4.7 but faster and incredibly cheaper .

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by senordevnyc »

aabdi wrote: post #37
aenis wrote: post #13

Out of curiosity, anyone here still using cursor?

composer is competitive with around opus 4.5 in feeling? largely lags behind opus4.7/gpt5.4, but is respectable, and generally outperforms the glm/qwen equivalents anecdotally despite benchmarks. fails to follow instructions more often, and is less code critical, but performs okay if you can decompose the task to smaller problem spaces. i.e. only do manual review, only do typechecking, only do specific component. etc…

I agree, Composer 2.5 is really good. I use it for all kinds of small tasks, and really for any kind of first pass at debugging, answering questions about the codebase, pulling data for reports, etc. It’s fast, pretty accurate, and basically free.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by dubeye »

yanis_t wrote: post #42

$60b is crazy. Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts. They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it. If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI. What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

shocked that an engineer would not mention user numbers or revenue growth in their analysis

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

wmeredith wrote: post #12

"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP." This is unhinged.

In a sensible world, this would be considered lying to investors and be prosecuted.
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