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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 stephc_int13 »

vorticalbox wrote: post #103
guidedlight wrote: post #77

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

its not just the models, their auto complete is actually really good. when you make a change it will give you "tab to next" which makes refactors super easy. composer 2.5 is also a very decent model, it go 90% of my AI tasks using it now.

I tried it a few times and was not convinced by the autocomplete.

I found it less effective than free copilot autocomplete on vanilla VSCode.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by hasteg »

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).

Earlier this year I had used it because I would rather have a IDE-like exp and be able to actually look at the code. However, recently switched to using claude code VS code extension and it's basically the same thing (plus at Amazon we can only use Claude Code)

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by blondie9x »

What are the best open source IDE alternatives to Cursor? There was Continue for a bit but Cursor bought it. Is Visual Code by itself the only open source IDE atm? My main gripe with Visual Code is it doesn't make it easy to use open weight models or non Copilot model APIs. Continue helped but its now part of Cursor.

As for coding in the terminal, we have Opencode, Claude Code, and Codex etc. They are all open source but only Opencode can route to open weight models. But non of these are really an IDE like Visual Code or Cursor.

Are we missing a really good open source IDE to use open weight models? It seems like we are.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by iddan »

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).

Yes, unlike Claude it has excellent response rate and i can leverage their speedy models

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by farfatched »

techpression wrote: post #98

How are these numbers even working out, I get free markets and all that, but Microsoft paid 2.5B for Minecraft, which was printing money at the time (seems they still lost on that deal). Now a rocket company is buying an editor company for 60B and everyone seems to think that makes sense. I’m happy to be old man yelling at clouds here because I can’t for the life of me figure out these valuations and purchases.

There's a lot of investment in AI for its potential.

An AI editor company might never make 60B itself, but it might help another AI company grow faster (relative to its competitors, who might also want to buy the AI editor company).

What else can an AI giant do with all that money?

Build in-house: they do, and there's only so fast they can hire/build.

Save? Yes, still do, but if they save it all, and let competitors buy Cursor, they lose.

Invest in other fields? Sure, but if they lose the AI race, that's all they'll be left with.

Tesla's IPO is a bet that if Musk has the right opportunity, he will do well. So he's given a big bucket of money, and needs a team that can deliver. So he buys Cursor.

The winners are Cursor. The losers are whoever is funding the AI companies that get outcompeted.

(Full disclosure: I don't know anything about Cursor, nor much about Tesla or its IPO.)

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Post by trial3 »

nbardy wrote: post #122
guidedlight wrote: post #77

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

No, look a Composoer 2, it stands out starkly on its own in the pareto frontier on low cast and fast models. Composer 2.5 was a huge leap with minimal compute from xAI. They can compete with OpenAI and anthropic with xAI scale compute. They have a top notch model team and incredible training data and huge enterprise costumer contracts.

my employer (one of those huge contracts) dropped cursor in favor of claude and i don’t think this is true at all

while we had it i used cursor for probably eight months as my main ide (i did really like the interface for embedding code in prompts!) but had no problems switching to claude code. i asked around, and i truly don’t know a single coworker who misses cursor even a little bit.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by shafiemoji »

I honestly don't get why they feel the need to buy Cursor or why OpenAI wanted Windsurf. If it's data you're after, wouldn't it be so much more cheaper to just hire a dedicated team to fork VS code and integrate your own model and give it to the public for free with unlimited usage for a couple of months?

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Post by joefourier »

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).

I stopped using Cursor because of how terribly optimised it is (worse than VSCode despite being a fork). It would routinely take up 50% of the CPU resources on my MacBook M4 and gigabytes of RAM for absolutely no reason.

I switched to Zed, and I'm never going back to Electron/non-native IDEs.

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