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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 da-x »

turadg wrote: post #526

Funny that “GitHub should really support stacked diffs” led the Graphite team to a space colonization co. 2020: Leave Meta and start a company. 2020–2021: Spend ~18 months looking for PMF. 2021–2025: Build Graphite around stacked PRs, code review, and merge queues. 2025: Get acquired by Cursor because AI makes code review the bottleneck. 2026: Cursor gets acquired by SpaceX because Elon. Not a startup arc I would hav…

Ah, it's somewhat like how Jeri Ryan's divorce caused Obama to get elected.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/187ghq/star_trek_...

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by ozgung »

I’d rather buy 60 “overpriced” Instagrams in 2012, or 3 overpriced WhatsApps in 2014 or 1.5 overpriced Twitters in 2022. I can’t tell what’s a bubble and how money works anymore.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by anshumankmr »

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…

>That said, I think we're in a narrow window of time right now where any of this matters. Prompt "engineering" and working around your tools will be over in a year or so.

How so?

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by 946789987649 »

jjice wrote: post #214
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).

It's my primary. Claude Code for personal stuff on the weekends. I really just prefer the GUI of having the changes easily highlighted. If I can get something to apply that with Claude Code or Codex or OpenCode or whatever, I'd swap over without thinking.

As in the changes its made? You can do that on Claude Code but by having it do it on a worktree and just checking out that worktree. Then you can see the change file(s) in your preferred IDE

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by y2244 »

outside1234 wrote: post #505
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...

SpaceX is just a vibe company. Nothing they are doing makes sense on a valuation basis, which their investors are eventually going to painfully figure out.

Like Tesla the stock is held by many powerful and rich people.

Elon is smart and doesn't buy things alone, he brings in many people so they all have a interest to protect their investment.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by y2244 »

themafia wrote: post #801
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…

> While Minecraft is just a game It's more than just a game. It's a bespoke social network. It's a merchandise generator. It produced an entire hollywood movie. It's become a cultural reference.

Do kids grow out of it by a certain age though?

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Post by timeon »

fastball wrote: post #744
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.

Yes, that is in fact how models get better at coding. Such a ridiculous stance: "I want LLMs to code for me, but I want them to be trained on other people's code, not mine, duh".

How about: "I do not want it to code for me or anyone if it steals from someone."

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by rimliu »

sneak wrote: post #900
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…

AI coding vastly increases the amount of code produced. It does almost nothing for productivity.
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