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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by taurath »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #113
Tyrubias wrote: post #104

I’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”?

> 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”? I put this in the other thread, but my personal working hypothesis is the SpaceX/Musk mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacenters are a demand excuse for putting solar panels (and eventually, solar-panel fabrication) i…

> building a Dyson sphere

So they are trying to take everyone’s money in bigger and bigger chunks until there is no economy left but hype.

Folks, if we spent 1/10th of the time and money we spend on this bullshit on taking care of people’s basic needs and education we would be far closer to the sci-fi future everyone seems so motivated to get to. Covid and the Trump cult seem to have broken almost everyone’s brains and we’re all gonna pay for the hubris.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by starkeeper »

sippeangelo wrote: post #74

That'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…

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

danny_codes wrote: post #119
Tyrubias wrote: post #104

I’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”?

The endgame is to game the index funds by bribing or otherwise.. convincing the big stock exchanges to forgo their index inclusion rules so SpaceX will get included in Nasdaq 100 within 10 days or something stupid like that. SpaceX will initially float a tiny fraction of shares at a wildly inflated value and use a combination of artificial scarcity and Elon Stans (retail) to keep the stock from crashing until it gets…

> endgame is to game the index funds

Buying Cursor does nothing for this.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by Rover222 »

fontain wrote: post #115
Tyrubias wrote: post #104

I’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”?

The Elon Musk Company does what Elon Musk wants. Tesla is dying, X is a disaster, so he bundled everything into the one company that had a bright future, SpaceX. There is no grand vision or endgame beyond do as Elon Musk wants. Going to Mars or the Moon or whatever was never a vision or mission, just a story to tell.

Model Y is still the best selling car in the world (and still the best-selling car in China), but yeah Tesla is *dying.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by FpUser »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #107
ellisv wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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+

I am subscribed to their all you can eat plan and use their Junie coding agent which is included with subscription with some free tokens. I then pay for extra tokens on on-need basis and all works like a charm. So far I pay (well my clients do as I bill separately for that) about $100 a month to cover my current coding needs. All works as a charm. I mostly use their CLion, Webstorm and PyCharm IDE's for development, sometimes other as well. All in all dev experience is excellent and far exceeds that of Cursor I was trying to use for a while.

Not sure what problems people here have with JetBrains offerings

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by [deleted] »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #107
ellisv wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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+

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