I mean, given Sam and Elon’s relationship, I don’t think anyone is surprised.
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#242Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by…
May be opencode2 in the near future. Sample (not affiliated) ~ 1. download opencode2 2. settings > tabs > vertical 3. add worktree setup to agents.md 4. use /diff to review changes 5. use commands for commit, sync and push
I don’t see how opencode 2 (or 1) addresses any of my concerns. I thought it might avoid rg/grep the code base on every prompt but does not even seem to be the case.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#243It's always been clear to me that Cursor's business model of reselling others' APIs had its days numbered. Not necessarily because the providers would pull the plug, but because you wouldn't be able to compete with subsidized plans. Cursor is already kind of useless for third party models unless you're willing to spend thousands of dollars. It's only worth it if you're going to use mostly grok/composer.
Use cursor cli for grok pretty happy with it.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL You had me until: >The same could be true of a company run by a drug addict. Elon Musk is nowhere near as capable as millions of intelligent developers in China.
He doesn't have to be. He just has to hire millions of intelligent developers in China.
Except legally and structurally, he can't:
ITAR: SpaceX is strictly barred by US federal law from hiring non-US persons for aerospace engineering.
National Security Scrutiny: xAI operates under increasing US export and tech-transfer controls regarding China.
Scale: A private company's recruiting budget cannot compete with the sovereign industrial capacity and state-backed talent pipeline of an entire nation.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#245My guess is that OpenAI now has a full blown Cursor equivalent in development (an expansion of Codex?) and will announce it in September. Otherwise it stands to lose those who are used to working with Cursor.
codex is already great.. cursor is just a competing harness
codex growth at 20mill now, prob more cost effective to allocate that compute to people directly paying now
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex. I don't like to use GUIs so I rely purely on agentic AI on CLIs.
In the case of TUIs I’m going to assume you review the code externally in neovim or lazy git or something like that? I don’t like relying on GIT for that and making things as good/done as I go. But with these agentic tools that’s what I have to do. Stage everything I like, manually edits a few bits. But what do you when you find something where you want to say the agent: I don’t like this for reasons x and y redo as…
I usually copy paste snippet or function name that is affected and comment it. similar like you would sit next to coworker and tried to say where he/she messed up.
agent is able to get location correctly
I know this is change of context, but I have full screen terminal toggled with keyboard shortcut and with middle mouse paste (Linux) I do not have to move cursor anywhere
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never seen a product blow another product out of the water so hard as Claude Code did to Cursor.
I saw that happen culturally. But never saw that much different in performance. And I really dislike terminal development. And their desktop app is really buggy.
Out of interest when did you last use the desktop app? I am a huge daily user of it and apart from very minimal bugs, it works perfectly for me. Wasn't always the case, so they've definitely made improvements
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#248Cursor founder just tweeted that he was sad to see this ban and that OpenAI model represented around 5% of total usage. Burn.
That's probably a lot more than their market share versus Claude Code and Codex.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently cancelled Cursor. The features you mention are in Antigravity IDE v1, which I am trying as I still have a Gemini subscription. No idea how long it will be around for, as Google Antigravity2 (more like Claude Code) is clearly the favoured way forward, plus the new Antigravity for VSCode Extension*, which I didn’t like as much when I tried it. It offers the same accept/reject hunk workflow, but I don’t know…
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve been trying to cancel my cursor subscription but I always come back. ;)
You’re welcome…
There are things I will probably miss from Cursor, as they used to iterate on DX goodies quite quickly. For frontend tasks, I liked the idea of Cursor Browser being able to do a devtools-like selection of an element tree to be included in the chat context. I’ve been told there are similar extensions available for vanilla VSCode, so will have to see how good they are.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#250Damn; Cursor has basically no value if Anthropic pulls the same move. Twitter Part 2 indeed.
Anthropic rents a lot of capacity from xAI, so I don't think they're in a position to do the same.
Anthropic already stopped selling use of their models to xAI when they suspect foul play there.