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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 tcp_handshaker »

returnInfinity wrote: post #354
tcp_handshaker wrote: post #189

Besides now paying 60 billion for a fork of VSCode, it seems SpaceX meme stock style money raised from the IPO, is all gone in one week :-) IPO proceeds after greenshoe: $85.7B Major disclosed cash / debt-related commitments: - Take out Bridge loan tied to X/xAI debt repayment: $20.0B - Take out EchoStar debt payoff / cash component: up to $8.5B - Take out EchoStar debt-service funding: up to $3.0B - Take out AI infr…

They are paying for the installed based. The users mainly. And also the team.

Looking at the comments on this thread, those users/installed base will be gone by the afternoon...

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by anthonypasq »

Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #548
ieie3366 wrote: post #534

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I know this is not always true. But the same people who like cursor still are the same people who are less familiar with the terminal. And I don't know what it is but it feels the less familiar you are with a terminal, the less skilled you tend to be. Definitely not a 100% case. But has been common in my experience

why do annoying engineers have such a weird fetish/superiority complex about the terminal. Its an inherently inferior UI. Theres absolutely nothing you can do in a terminal that you cant do in a GUI, and every TUI is just jumping through insane hoops to support functionality thats trivial in a GUI.

Why on earth would you want to look at a code diff in a terminal? Why on earth would you want to use weird bespoke keyboard shortcuts to navigate sub-agents in a TUI session. Why on earth would i not want the ability to open/edit a file manually in the tool im using to write code.

can someone please explain this to me?

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Post by pants2 »

joshgachnang wrote: post #522
frays wrote: 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).

Just setup my team with Cursor. They actually got back to me on an enterprise plan (Claude keeps ignoring me). Cloud Agents have been great for keeping multiple streams going at the same time. Adding in computer use has been great for actually testing out features and showing they work for PRs. Bugbot so far has been the best AI reviewer I've tested. Composer 2.5 is great, though still using Opus for planning. I can…

Yeah, I've tried many scanners and Cursor Bugbot is easily the best

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Post by loufe »

baq wrote: post #552
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 flicke…

For what it's worth, flickering in CC has been fixed since around the beginning of the year.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by winfredJa »

greenoracle9 wrote: post #46

$60B is a huge price, but buying Cursor gives Musk something xAI has struggled to build: a popular coding product with real developer and enterprise adoption. It may be the fastest way to catch up in AI coding. The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away.

i’m not interested in supporting a trillionaire with my money. i’ll be moving to vscode since the cost of switching is basically zero.

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Post by 0xffff2 »

mikeryan wrote: post #434
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...

It’s all in a stock that may very well be near its zenith when this closes (or maybe not. This is so far past fundamentals it’s impossible to tell). They’re spending Monopoly money. It also seems like SpaceX is poised to Hoover up all of Elons companies so it’s might not be “just a space company” for long.

The company that just IPOed is already overwhelmingly "X AI" financially, regardless of the fact that it says "Space X" in the marketing. Whether SpaceX also buys Tesla is hardly even going to move the needle.

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Post by testing22321 »

munk-a wrote: post #485
mikeryan wrote: post #434

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s all in a stock that may very well be near its zenith when this closes (or maybe not. This is so far past fundamentals it’s impossible to tell). They’re spending Monopoly money. It also seems like SpaceX is poised to Hoover up all of Elons companies so it’s might not be “just a space company” for long.

Elon's award is tied to growing Tesla's market cap - it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.

His award is also tied to numbers of vehicles and robots sold.

So just increasing market cap won’t do it alone.

Even if he merged them, they still have to produce WAY more than they are now.

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Post by jmuguy »

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 think I'm late to the party with cursor but I don't use it as an editor at all, I keep VS Code open on another screen for that. All I do in there is agent sessions. I would be open to something else but all the comparisons I see are out of date and talk about the IDE a lot.
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