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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 sanderjd »

01100011 wrote: post #564
devin wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you saying is going to be over in a year or so?

Right now I think there is an edge to how you construct prompts and config files. There is a large difference between "modify f() to do..." and "modify f() to do... Review the current variables and make sure they are still used consistent with their naming. Look for unreachable and dead code. Examine callers and called functions for side effects from the introduced changes...". I don't think that will make much diffe…

I'm increasingly convinced of the opposite. IMO Fable was pretty similarly capable for my day to day work as Opus.

I think there's a pretty good chance that we've reached the point of diminishing returns, for our specific use case.

There are still like a billion other (more difficult) use cases to be tackled, but I think "generating code" has gotten really good to the point where the other bottlenecks will prevent further exponential progress on this specific task.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by missedthecue »

killingtime74 wrote: post #772
glenngillen wrote: post #48

Back in the early days of Heroku (when I worked there), we were all fairly deep into the Ruby community. Ruby has never had a great reputation for performance, but... it seemed like almost a running joke that any time you went down a rabbit-hole trying to understand some weird performance issue you'd eventually discover that @tmm1 had already identified the same issue months earlier, patched it in core, and given an…

Congrats? Usually after acquisition comes layoffs. Especially with Elon at the helm

Especially with Elon? It happened one time (twitter) and if you think twitter was appropriately staffed at 8k employees you need your head read. Cursor operates with a very small team, and practically all have equity, so a $60B exit means congrats are in order.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by tclancy »

digitaltrees wrote: post #612
redox99 wrote: post #554

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 disli…

I love the accept reject flow because I still constantly have to stop AI models from writing awful architecture or reimplementing code we already wrote elsewhere

How is it different from Keep / Discard in other tools? I've been slowly converting my git repositories to jj locally because that gives me more granular fallback and mix and match options.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by sanderjd »

jw1224 wrote: post #491
devin wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you saying is going to be over in a year or so?

Not OP, but I generally agree. Models are powerful enough now to reliably instruct other models. They don’t need fancy tools or IDEs, just the command line. With deterministic workflows, type-safe languages and test suites, agentic loops pretty much “can’t fail”. They will continue until the types resolve, the tests pass, and the project requirements are deterministically met. By that point it’s literally just a case…

This seems true to me in theory, but not in practice.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by throwawaythekey »

hatsix wrote: post #579
sanex wrote: post #148

My whole team was on cursor for a few months. I enjoyed using it and thought it was the most complete of the agentic coding tools I tried. The thing that got me was the cost. I was switching between Opus and GPT 5.x and was spending anywhere between $500-1000/month. I was using a relatively normal workflow, paste in ticket, plan, execute with dumb sub agents, have the ai test and competing model to validate. The busi…

The price you're objecting to is the heavily subsidized cost, it'll be 4x that in 12 months

More precisely -> the competitors heavily subsidize which causes cursor to feel expensive.

> Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2064815044085318040/

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by emp_ »

I was (until this announcement/today) an annual subscriber just for the early days of Autocomplete goodness that I do not use anymore but would stick around and check from time to time their progress and always hoped we would eventually have a good UI for LLMs outside the terminal.

an IDE to look at one file at a time is not interface for LLMs - it was made for people, and while I guess you can sit in the Agents mode all day, to me thats a completely different byproduct and just "Terminal is yuck" kinda users, maybe someday we'll have a proper dedicated LLM UI but we are not there yet.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by CSMastermind »

hatsix wrote: post #579
sanex wrote: post #148

My whole team was on cursor for a few months. I enjoyed using it and thought it was the most complete of the agentic coding tools I tried. The thing that got me was the cost. I was switching between Opus and GPT 5.x and was spending anywhere between $500-1000/month. I was using a relatively normal workflow, paste in ticket, plan, execute with dumb sub agents, have the ai test and competing model to validate. The busi…

The price you're objecting to is the heavily subsidized cost, it'll be 4x that in 12 months

> I was switching between Opus and GPT 5.x and was spending anywhere between $500-1000/month.

I switched to Codex because Cursor was costing me $10k / month. If the price goes up by 4x I'm not sure the value will be there for a lot of people.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by CSMastermind »

petterroea wrote: post #109
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).

to be fair "nobody" is using grok either

I use grok every day as my go to search engine replacement.
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