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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#121

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

None of that really matters.

What matters is that this has enough "future story value" to keep the few investors invested... allowing for the planned index funds to buy into the overvalued stock & allowing for the largest heist in the history of money.

It's become pure hype and drama on the global stock market stage.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#122

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

No, look a Composoer 2, it stands out starkly on its own in the pareto frontier on low cast and fast models.

Composer 2.5 was a huge leap with minimal compute from xAI.

They can compete with OpenAI and anthropic with xAI scale compute. They have a top notch model team and incredible training data and huge enterprise costumer contracts.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#124

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

its not just the models, their auto complete is actually really good. when you make a change it will give you "tab to next" which makes refactors super easy. composer 2.5 is also a very decent model, it go 90% of my AI tasks using it now.

composer 2.5 is literally just a fine-tuned kimi model, and the autocomplete is exteremly meh.

The only kind of AI I want in my editor is an autocomplete, but this isn't very magical to non-programmers (their TAM) or all that valuable (you can't charge thousands), they bought Supermaven and basically killed it, I'm not sure how you think tab is really good, I've not been impressed when I played around with it.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#125
post #84

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

They're getting paid in extremely overvalued stock, so maybe it balances out. This is not really a diss on SpaceX either because a lot of IPOs go through an immediate pop and then 1-2 years of doldrums as lockouts expire and promises aren't quite delivered. Nobody knows what 60 billion in SpaceX stock today will be worth when Cursor insiders finally get to sell (at least a year from now, after other SpaceX insiders h…

Source on the lockup for Cursor insiders?

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#127

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

Composer is very good, and these days after heavily using CC, Pi and Open code I am back with Cursor. "No moat or IP" is underrating it a lot.

CC on Deepseek is a moat.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#128
post #102

Is anyone on HN still actually using Cursor in 2026? Everyone I've spoken with is now using either Claude Code or Codex (or Copilot because their companies force them to).

Fully on Cursor at work and I love it over CC, OpenCode and Pi that I use for personal work.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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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?

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