We have reached peak stupid.
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#102What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
AFAIK cursor is basically the only player right now not subsidizing tokens out the ass, and has been seeing solid growth across individual and enterprise with almost every model performing best in their harness. Not sure how that’s a serious decline.
I would like to know where you’re seeing this, because my strong impression is exactly the opposite: a year ago, everyone was talking about Cursor, but I haven’t heard anything about it in months. It’s all Claude Code and Codex now. In terms of mindshare they seem dead already.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#103What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
AFAIK cursor is basically the only player right now not subsidizing tokens out the ass, and has been seeing solid growth across individual and enterprise with almost every model performing best in their harness. Not sure how that’s a serious decline.
cursors internal model efforts have not been able to meaningfully exceed the performance of the frontier models.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#104I’m no fan of Elon Musk, but even from a neutral perspective I’m bewildered by the merger between X, X.ai, and SpaceX and now this acquisition of Cursor. What’s the endgame? How does this help with the whole vision of “we all live in space and mine resources from the Moon and have data centers on Mars”?
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#105Wish I played that interview game better. I saw the success coming from a mile away (2022) but I can't vibe with people in the hire game right. It's like eye contact, smiling, facial expressions, stuff like that.
I guess there's a bunch of tools to not suck at this. Anyone had success here? The AI tools say I'm great because they can't pick up the kind of problems I'm talking about.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#106That's a hefty payday for a model that barely functions! Every time I run out of API credits and get kicked back to Composer 2 I feel like I'm better off just packing up for the rest of the month. I feel like we're finally at a point where you don't have to constantly argue with and constantly babysit coding models, which makes it even more frustrating when you're suddenly forced to deal with one that ignores your in…
Cursor is still the best coding environment and hardness. It's actually not really close. They are so good that they actually made Gemini usable. The problem is they can't compete with Anthropic and OpenAI because they can't sell Opus and GPT at a discount to subscribers like OpenAI and Anthropic do with their subscriptions. So they either need to build a competing model or slowly die.
Bet they will become tied to grok pretty soon.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
JetBrains is crying in the corner...
I honestly can’t believe how poorly JetBrains has done. I used to love PyCharm but now it’s so far behind. I still use DataGrip but it is absolute dogshit when it comes to agentic coding.
I was a massive jetbrains fan - still believe it's the best IDE even with it's massive performance issues.
But I just... barely use an IDE anymore. I think I have the lowest possible subscription price for "all products" you can have (at least as an outsider) and I think I'm going to cancel this year. I've been paying for a decade+
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
JetBrains is crying in the corner...
I honestly can’t believe how poorly JetBrains has done. I used to love PyCharm but now it’s so far behind. I still use DataGrip but it is absolute dogshit when it comes to agentic coding.
Unless you do Jakarta EE development, where Cursor with their simple LSP support is far, far behind. Cool for generating a bean, but when you got to debugging deployment descriptors you wish you were in IntelliJ.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#109Why would Elon do this if he knows full well the names X-Code and Codex are already taken?
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#110xAI is working on virtualizing white collar workers. I'm guessing this is part of that.
See also: companies buying up the Slack and email archives of defunct startups, for training data.