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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by germandiago »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #479
germandiago wrote: post #451

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There will be a moment where the government will depend so much on the tech that if the tech cuts the supply, they are f... Who do you think will rule at that point? They just cannot fight that, they do not have the technology these companies have.

In that situation, it depends how much physical force the government has to compel the tech leader, and how much physical force the tech leader has to counter it. Usually, the number of bodies who will comply is the proxy for power, but with automation, it could be different in the near future. https://xkcd.com/538/

But it can clearly be seen that the power will not be as monopolistic as before indeed. The rebalance leans towards losing power for states vs tech in part.

Regulation alone cannot control if it cannot be made effective.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by sevenseacat »

fweimer wrote: post #254
raincole wrote: post #103

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I've never seen a product blow another product out of the water so hard as Claude Code did to Cursor.

The TUI version of Claude Code just isn't very good, though. The default keybindings do not work in the majority of terminals (because they generate the same byte sequences for key sequences assigned to different commands). Editing large prompts is rather painful because there doesn't seem to be in-prompt search commands. There is no source code browser, so source code references cannot checked by the users without a…

The Claude Code TUI is downright awful, and hostile.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by arendtio »

robertjpayne wrote: post #236
jackjeff wrote: post #194

Is 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…

Cursor no longer indexes your codebase.

Do you know when they stopped and why?

EDIT - AI says:

Cursor seems to have intentionally dropped semantic/embedding-based codebase indexing. Their explanation is that newer coding agents are now good enough at searching repos directly. They can grep in parallel, inspect directories, read likely files, and refine the search themselves. Cursor says this now works as well or better for most cases. [1]

So the architecture shifted from something like “chunk → embed → vector DB → retrieve” to “local search index/ripgrep → agent explores.” There is still an index, but it’s a conventional local search index. No embeddings are involved in that retrieval path. [1]

The interesting part is that Cursor was still reporting a ~12.5% accuracy gain from semantic indexing in January 2026. [2] So this looks less like “semantic search never worked” and more like agentic search improving fast enough that the extra infrastructure stopped being worth it.

[1] https://forum.cursor.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-cursor-re...

[2] https://cursor.com/blog/secure-codebase-indexing

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Post by cornholio »

insanitybit wrote: post #400
cornholio wrote: post #167

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It's ironic how AI companies are re-inventing their own form of privately enforced copyright, lobby the government to ban foreign competitors that don't respect it etc., all while spending the last 5 years fighting tooth and nail against the copyright of the training material they're using. If you can take any book and turn it into a model, because it's "transformative enough", and "AI learns just like a person does"…

Contracts are not a "reinvented" form of copyright. This isn't even uncommon.

That's the irony! They put in contract rules against lawful, paying customers - that don't disrupt their service in any way for other customers - but which compete against them in the marketplace using their own IP (aka LLMized stolen IP). That's exactly what copyright does, without signing any contracts and with a tort and criminal enforcement regime that punishes infringers far beyond contractual remedies can.

The government level lobby against foreign competitors is not contractual but just another form of reinvention of criminal injunctions against infringers.

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Post by jurgenburgen »

robben1234 wrote: post #499
hamdingers wrote: post #459

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Do you never have agents working on multiple tasks in parallel? You'll become much more productive when you figure out how to stop micromanaging.

More productive in what way? Letting agents burn tokens to produce garbage output is not productive. And letting teammates read code that wasn't reviewed by a human submitting it also isn't productive. If I work with one agent / few subagents on one feature I can steer it as soon as I notice it drifting into the direction of waste. This way I only review the total diff 1.5-2 times. And I also don't waste my own menta…

> And letting teammates read code that wasn't reviewed by a human submitting it also isn't productive.

If that’s what you got from my comment then you need to review it again.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by archon810 »

ChannelFence wrote: post #55
rgbrenner wrote: post #32

Anthropic already banned xAI for very similar ToS violations earlier this year: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46 So this is OpenAI following suit after Musk admitted to distilling their models. This was bound to happen once Cursor decided to sell itself to a competing model provider. It'll be interesting to see if Anthropic applies their ban to Cursor, or if that datacenter deal they signed wi…

i'll be surprised if anthropic doesnt follow. cursors biggest advantage has been giving users a polished wrapper around whichever frontier model they prefer

Anthropic already said they're definitely still in.

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Post by jurgenburgen »

kaashif wrote: post #309
jurgenburgen wrote: post #286

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> It seems that everyone loves agentic Claude code things these days but I don’t understand how you can review what it did and remain as much in the flow as you do with cursor. The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and then I review the whole diff in a separate terminal as if it’s a PR from someone else. Then I very impolitely list the shit that needs fixing, let the LLM grind out a new batch and r…

There is a step missing. Impolitely list what's wrong and try to incorporate any persistent themes into a markdown file so that the agent stops making the same mistakes. Put any rules into linters and static analysis and sanitizers and ... I sometimes see people reviewing LLM code leaving the same review comments multiple times, or worse, after some time they just give up reviewing.

I 100% agree on the automated guardrails.

The part where you add instructions into a document is a bit of hit and miss. If they’re general enough it works but at my employer they have gone all out and have LLMs writing instructions that are committed to repos. There’s also a bunch of tools enforcing security instructions that usually just make the model confused (it starts arguing against the instructions randomly in the middle of performing a task). The agents are “stuttering” on most tasks because of the bloated instructions.

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Post by oblio »

reaperducer wrote: post #354
oblio wrote: post #264

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Like Uber replaced all drivers with self driving cars [1] in its 20 years of operation? Just because I want to paint the moon pink, doesn't mean it's feasible. [1] If anything, Waymo has a higher chance and global Waymo adoption is probably 20 years into the future, at least.

Like Uber replaced all drivers with self driving cars [1] in its 20 years of operation? They're trying. I see Uber robotaxis almost daily.† I haven't bothered to see if they're still in training or actually taking passengers. † https://lucidmotors.com/stories/lucid-nuro-uber-partner

I know they're trying. Trying is not the same as succeeding, which was my point.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by oopsieDayz »

germandiago wrote: post #451
slfnflctd wrote: post #326

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> It is just a matter of time. The state, as we know it, will collapse or will be greatly reduced Doubt. The networking between people in power at the top will, in my opinion, most likely assure that they remain in power, because at the end of the day that is what they want most. I expect government will seize control of the most advanced models (if they haven't already), and the rest of us will be throttled, and sta…

There will be a moment where the government will depend so much on the tech that if the tech cuts the supply, they are f... Who do you think will rule at that point? They just cannot fight that, they do not have the technology these companies have.

We meaningfully passed that point decades ago.

You think all those lawyers and bar tenders and whatever MTG was serving in Congress are out there tilling fields and sewing shirts? Nope. Without that tech they are f...

"They"

Who are you talking about? Because if you haven't noticed the people in charge now will die.

Most of the Fortune 500 of the 1900s have been gone for decades. The olds are vastly outnumbered by youth who either hate them or wouldn't mind just getting to beat someone who can't fight back up

With measles and food contamination going wild now it's just as likely the rich and pols kill themselves.

There is no beating physics and Elon, Thiel, and such rely on a lot of people to do the work for them. If society implodes all bets are off. Their wealth is coupled to legitimacy of America. Those body guards aren't going to abandon families for a broke former billionaire

There's no upside for the rich is things implode or the divide is not believed to exist; they become common rabble and get a pick axe too

The rich and politicians are just stupid meat suits too. They misread a room and screw up alot

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