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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 Ritewut »

esalman wrote: post #920
davebren wrote: post #680

> "In its IPO filing, the company had said Cursor's access to developers' data, including coding requests and design decisions, could help improve its AI models such as Grok." They're all stealing your IP and selling it back to your competitors in the form of tokens.

I work at a 20k-employee company with footprint in tech. A couple of weeks ago a decision was made to not renew Cursor license. This week it was made public and has been greeted with groans. Some employees have been publicly saying how ineffective and unproductive they are going to become due to this decision- which actually strikes me as really naive. Personally I like to use a stable IDE. I used Cursor for a couple…

Most people are not good at their jobs and IDEs like Cursor let bad SWEs feel more productive because they are committing more code.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by RevEng »

theultdev wrote: post #865
RevEng wrote: post #864

I quite liked Cursor. I even tried Claude Code and found myself wanting to go back to Cursor. Unfortunately, this completely kills it for me. I will not support Elon Musk or any of his shenanigans. He is already far richer than any person should be, but he also constantly tries to manipulate the government to benefit himself to the detriment of everyone else, whether that's DOGE, or the fast track to begging added to…

On the flipside, this makes me MORE confident in Cursor. But I already use Cursor w/ Starlink in the Cybertruck, so easy choice. I also don't fall for propaganda so makes it easy to make practical, not emotional, decisions. He's not evil, just a man with a vision, hopefully you realize that one day.

I don't care for his vision. I'm basing that on his words and actions, not based on anybody else's propaganda.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by dwaltrip »

loufe wrote: post #594
baq wrote: post #552

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The rendering still breaks many times a day for me, in fairly catastrophic ways. Usually because I have the audacity to resize my terminal window.

Ctrl+c -> new tab -> `claude —resume` is deeply ingrained at this point.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by thatjoeoverthr »

embedding-shape wrote: post #713
ghshephard wrote: post #626

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use cursor 8+ hours/day at work, and have full (and effectively unlimited) access to Claude Code and Codex - tools which I also use personally. I suspect that your "constant popups" were when you were using the editor - a mode that I'll confess I haven't touched in 3+ months. Workflow in Cursor is actually awesome - I'm a little outdated in how I use it - I still establish goals/objectives, rather than managing the…

> there isn't really any "prompt engineering" involved You should make an experiment; take someone who never used any LLMs or agents, and tell them to use it for the first time in front of you, and tell them to build something like a calculator program or whatnot. Bonus points if they're ICs or at least not-managers. I think there is a lot us engineers take for granted, when it comes to communicating via text, how to…

Recently I have the SEO guy governing the mostly static, public site with Claude Code. He loves it but you would never imagine the level of mental illness Claude comes up with. If it were an employee I’d literally throw him out the front door, labor laws be damned. And as always, every insane thing it does is some direct echo of its concept and training.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by hypfer »

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…

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by yieldcrv »

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…

multiple organizations I contract with have killed their cursor enterprise plans over the past several weeks

to me, this seems like the perfect time for Cursor to exit and even "Q3 completion" is too late. Deal just needs to close. Fortunately Q3 completion could mean July 1st too

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by mikestorrent »

nurumaik wrote: post #774
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…

Also C++ engineer, but from my perspective, for large tasks, agentic coding is still lacking no matter how well I describe desired output. So in that cases I fall back to manual coding and cursor tab helps a lot with boring parts

Companies with large C/C++ codebases should sell AI companies the right to train on their code for $$.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by simondotau »

risyachka wrote: post #557
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.

Literally the opposite is true. Being a text editor at its core, and by spending a lot of effort refining the human-AI pair programming experience, Cursor makes sense for someone who wants to lead code development with AI being a speed multiplier and a team member.

Tools like CC are best suited to vibe coding.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by swordsith »

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 can only stand to use the cursor CLI at this point, but it's usable I like to be able to switch models when one gets stupid or guard-railed, on the pro plan you get so much usage in the composer 2.5 pool you could just use that your whole sub if you wanted.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by mikestorrent »

aenis wrote: post #822
kensai wrote: post #718

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Prompt "engineering" and working around your tools will be over in a year or so." What do you mean by that? What is happening in just over a year or so?

I think Fable gave a bit of a sneak peek into the future. My objective KPI: for the few days I was using Fable (18hr a day), it would frequently push back against my design ideas and propose alternatives -- and they almost always felt better to me. Back to Opus now, still 18hr days - and I dont think it disagreed with me meaningfully even once since Saturdy. I consider myself and old hand -- and i think Fable really…

Remember to go outside once in a while, my dude
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