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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 jatora »

jonator wrote: post #536

90% of my dev workflows have moved to Devin cloud agents. I don’t miss the days of fumbling around with my local repos across my multiple agent work trees or clones. I just throw a task at Devin and I get a PR a few moments later. Then it monitors the PR for any failing CI or review comments without me in the loop. Now I can have 10+ Devin’s running at any given moment as I walk home from the coffee shop.

I cant believe people still use Devin. This is just filling the niche of vibe PR'ing? Not even vibe coding? Another level removed from the codebase than even claude code/codex are?

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by baq »

01100011 wrote: post #421

I stopped using Cursor when I started getting comfortable with Codex/Claude. Cursor is just annoying with the constant popups and it's just not as good. Now my workflow is to use my normal editor, add a todo describing what I want, and then ask Codex+gpt-5.5 to implement it. It absolutely nails it. Using codex is so much more like working with a partner vs the noise and annoyance of Cursor. That said, I think we're i…

the reason to use cursor nowadays isn't the IDE (though it's helpful perhaps once a week), but how it makes running models from multiple providers trivial out of the box. I don't have to juggle keys or drop to a shell tool call, it supports calling out to e.g. gemini in a subagent natively. I have multiple models cross-reviewing plans and diffs as a matter of course.

claude code was seriously annoying with the flickering, maybe it's fixed now, I don't know.

cursor also has a (bad) cli if you need it, it seems it's mostly used to setup remote agents, but it does the job in a pinch.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by jwilber »

ieie3366 wrote: post #534
01100011 wrote: post #421

I stopped using Cursor when I started getting comfortable with Codex/Claude. Cursor is just annoying with the constant popups and it's just not as good. Now my workflow is to use my normal editor, add a todo describing what I want, and then ask Codex+gpt-5.5 to implement it. It absolutely nails it. Using codex is so much more like working with a partner vs the noise and annoyance of Cursor. That said, I think we're i…

Yep in my experience the weakest engs in my org are the ones still using Cursor. not a good outlook IMO

I don’t think mapping tooling to ability makes sense here, particularly when the “advanced” tools here just abstract more away, though I agree that Cursor is terrible. So many useless windows.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by redox99 »

01100011 wrote: post #421

I stopped using Cursor when I started getting comfortable with Codex/Claude. Cursor is just annoying with the constant popups and it's just not as good. Now my workflow is to use my normal editor, add a todo describing what I want, and then ask Codex+gpt-5.5 to implement it. It absolutely nails it. Using codex is so much more like working with a partner vs the noise and annoyance of Cursor. That said, I think we're i…

I also work with C++, and I use Codex (desktop) which writes 99.99% of my code, plus Visual Studio, which is nice for reading and navigating code. For webdev I do VSCode + Codex.

I started with Cursor back in the day, but switched to Claude Code and then Codex when Cursor got too expensive.

If price wasn't an issue, maybe I'd prefer Cursor only because I can easily switch between models. But that's it. I always disliked the "accept/reject" workflow in cursor, but that's probably optional nowadays I guess?

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by andruby »

over_bridge wrote: post #517
munk-a wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only the shareholders had any kind of voice - if only it was illegal to issue a fake IPO where you sell an overwhelming number of shares stripped of their voting power - if only the market responded rationally to this boondoggle. If we're going to right the ship in turn of common sense a bunch of people need to lose a bunch of money, I just hope it doesn't mostly hit passive investors and instead lands mostly on E…

How is it legal to have different share classes? You could make 100 shares that can vote and then sell 99.9% of the company while maintaining full control. Seems strongly against the spirit of a publicly traded company

Most large companies do that these days: GOOG, META all have different share classes. Even the small startup I worked for had that.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by LearnYouALisp »

GenerWork wrote: post #242
snigacookie wrote: post #211

Can someone help me understand what this means to tesla and Grok?

I wouldn't be surprised to see Grok become some sort of agent that calls Composer/whatever the joint Cursor & X.ai model might be called.

The Infraggable Krunk

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by risyachka »

01100011 wrote: post #421

I stopped using Cursor when I started getting comfortable with Codex/Claude. Cursor is just annoying with the constant popups and it's just not as good. Now my workflow is to use my normal editor, add a todo describing what I want, and then ask Codex+gpt-5.5 to implement it. It absolutely nails it. Using codex is so much more like working with a partner vs the noise and annoyance of Cursor. That said, I think we're i…

Cursors target users are not developers but casual vibe coders.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by supertroop »

barredo wrote: post #25

>> 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. I very much can imagine a future documentary in a few years. With the host asking the audience: "Where were the signs?"

Well the TAM can match GDP if GDP evaporates!

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by risyachka »

Alifatisk wrote: post #422

A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...

Smart move as they will pay in stock, and if stock is overvalued by 2x this means you get 50% discount
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