SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by icfly2 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC

swalsh wrote: post #785

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?"

Imagine the East India Trading company advertising the TAM of the new emerging markets in the early 1600's. I bet the numbers compared to the old world would be enormous, and equally unbelievable. IF, and yeah it's a gigantic really big IF... the future plays out the way people are envisioning it. It's future shock. Astroid mining, gigafabs, star ships launching hourly making space exploration cheap, satellite intell…

The TAM that spacex quotes has nothing to do with Space. It is all AI. As in grok. This is a joke, and people that believe it are just providing exit liquidity.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by himata4113 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 5:56 AM UTC

Is this one of the situations where one of the engineers at SpaceX showed elon musk cursor and said "this is the future of programming" and that has been stuck in his head ever since? Otherwise (unless someone can prove me wrong) I don't quite follow buying out a company at the peak of their evaluation.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by nasreddin » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

flyingshelf wrote: post #903

NothingAboutAny wrote: post #885

I dont understand if AI is so good at code why are people buying software? couldn't musk just generate his own IDE with the spacex brand behind it?

AI is good at code but it can't one-shot whole platforms. I don’t think we'll be in the "give me a new Windows XP but Unix core" range anytime soon. You still need time and guidance/ideas.

not totally true anymore. check out https://programbench.com/

new models like Fable were scoring 30%. wouldnt be suprised if very soon we eclipse 50%

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by harrouet » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 6:24 AM UTC

Fits right in: overvalued, over-promising, pure bubble hype.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by aaron695 » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 6:31 AM UTC

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.

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by jackzhuo » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

I had stopped using Cursor since July 2025, because of its mess pricing policy.

Now I use codex & claude code & antigravity, and can not return to using Cursor.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by mgc_blackbox » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:20 AM UTC

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by mortarion » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:21 AM UTC

PowerElectronix wrote: post #656

They didn't wait a full week before dumping shit in the investors. Why would spaceX want to double down on AI after the pain xAI is giving them with no good models and no use for the hardware?

SpaceX is 90% xAI and 10% space. It's no longer a space exploration company, it's an AI company (with a sub-par product). Insane (and dumb) valuation, kind of like Tesla.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by hackermanai » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:26 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #626

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 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…

> You just say, "Go Build me x - it should have y,z features - and build it in golang for me" - and that's it - the 3-4 page Plan comes back - usually pretty credible - and then you click "build.".

What you're describing seems like a workflow for building toys only. There's currently no reality in which someone would actually know what the y,z features are before making them. A plan generated in 5min would likely suggest a suboptimal solution compared to what a good solution would look like (which might take a year or two to figure out, for a human, so still a week or so for SOTA models if at all possible). Building something in golang is cute, but hard to be convinced until more novel applications are being generated from prompts.

The data submitted by Cursor's users tho, that seems to be very valuable.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by blog_rahul » Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:28 AM UTC

I fail to understand, cursuor is bad at C++, really Bad. In fact of all tools and LLMs, cursor is worst, the best is kimi as per me. It know how to spot segfaults in long lines of code. Why would anyone pay for this hallucinating garbage, especially from a company which does mission critical C++

And, No It;s not a skill Issue. And No, my goal is not to make another vibe code music wrapper around ffmpeg, and No My goal is not make a program around some tcp wrapper. My goal is to fix and write new features in decade old code bases running across millions of devices.