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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 maxicch »

treexs wrote: post #867

Wow everyone on HN seems very out of touch with Cursor. Their UX on their agents only window is quite good and on par if not better than Codex and Claude desktop apps and it still has quite a good bit of subsidization especially with Composer 2.5 being on par with Sonnet at the very least. They're also growing tremendously this year to 4B ARR recently on track to go higher before EOY.

Exactly. People here still think that Cursor is just a vscode fork while it has positioned itself as agent orchestration console that happens to have an editor you can switch to.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by buryat »

buzzcut_ wrote: post #747

This is a stupid comparison, but Mojang/Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014. Arguably the most popular video game of all time, which has brought joy to hundreds of millions of people for years and years, was valued at 1/20th of an AI startup that will soon disappear into irrelevance. While Minecraft is just a game, I'd argue it has more societal value than Cursor. The way things are valued is nonsensical t…

Minecraft is just limited for additional value creation, i.e. it's not a tool for creating more value

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by buzzcut_ »

itemize123 wrote: post #882
buzzcut_ wrote: post #747

This is a stupid comparison, but Mojang/Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014. Arguably the most popular video game of all time, which has brought joy to hundreds of millions of people for years and years, was valued at 1/20th of an AI startup that will soon disappear into irrelevance. While Minecraft is just a game, I'd argue it has more societal value than Cursor. The way things are valued is nonsensical t…

u cant compare productivity to games on the metric of bring joy - ofc productivity tool isn't bring joy like a game does.

Happy and fulfilled people are generally more productive, indirectly.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by dmix »

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…

Same I’d pay for Cursor again if they get more price competitive with Claude max

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by dmix »

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).

I use Cursor with the Claude code plugin because Cursors autocomplete is really good and I like the way Cursor is set up. But it’s definitely a UX downgrade using a plugin instead of the builtin Cursor agent stuff which I do miss. Claude with Max are just a safer bet economically these days than a cursor plan.

I except that model and pricing gap to narrow over time though

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by dmix »

joaofs wrote: post #302
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).

Development is moving away from the IDE to agentic long running workers. I've been using their SDK in this mode - which then forces you to use cursor as model provider. I use a mix of harnesses for different types of agentic tasks and Cursor gets the best results.

I don’t see how Cursor differs in that regard. They have an agent management system since Cursor 3 and some feature that offloads agents to the background or cloud which I haven’t used yet. I always just keep chat windows open if it’s running because I’m always watching that stuff closely.

Seems more like an advanced/niche feature for people who go really hard into LLMs IMO

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by waldrews »

Back in my day, a software company of national importance would be considered a big success if acquired for 60 million... Of course, at that point it would have to be profitable, and actually own its key IP...

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by sneak »

buzzcut_ wrote: post #747

This is a stupid comparison, but Mojang/Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014. Arguably the most popular video game of all time, which has brought joy to hundreds of millions of people for years and years, was valued at 1/20th of an AI startup that will soon disappear into irrelevance. While Minecraft is just a game, I'd argue it has more societal value than Cursor. The way things are valued is nonsensical t…

Minecraft erases productivity. AI coding vastly increases it.

The economic value of a tool is in the economic value it can produce. The economic value that Minecraft can produce is limited to how much money 8 year olds can wheedle out of mom and dad. The economic value that Cursor can produce is probably in the trillions, if they play their cards right.

You're also forgetting that money is worth a lot less today than it was in 2014. $60B today is $42B in 2014 money. Still 17x that of Mojang, but not the 24x that it appears at first glance.

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