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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by notpushkin »

inigyou wrote: post #140
brightball wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic seems to have no issues: https://x.com/NotTomBrown/status/2093541294027280657?s=20

Remind me to set up public nitter so I can post a nitter link to whatever this is, and then I can read it.

Not being able to read about Musk doing some shit because Musk have done some shit to Nitter is just peak comedy.

Just go ahead and do set it up. You’ll be my hero (I don’t have mental capacity to research which jurisdiction works for this right now, but obviously not in US or EU.)

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by SyneRyder »

ifwinterco wrote: post #155
raincole wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Claude code is a decent harness but then you have to use Anthropic models, which are good but no longer the best bang for the buck. In particular Haiku 4.5 is rubbish, Anthropic don’t have anything in the cheap/fast part of the market. For people fortunate enough to still be on a subscription instead of per-token billing this is less relevant, but their time will come. The cursor model is quite nice because it allows…

> Claude code is a decent harness but then you have to use Anthropic models...

Claude Code works with models from other providers too. Anthropic supports this. You can configure some Claude Code environment variables to switch: eg changing ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL to point to GLM Flash or Luna, setting ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to point to api.z.ai, and making ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN the API key for your alternative provider instead.

Some instructions here:

https://docs.z.ai/scenario-example/develop-tools/claude

That said, I've not actually tried this myself, opting to build my own harness instead. And you don't know what information Claude Code might be sending back to Anthropic about how you use competing models and which models you use. I don't know for sure that they do this, but after hearing about how they used steganography in the date of harness system prompts to identify the user's location, I don't entirely trust Claude Code anymore.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by atmosx »

thoughtpeddler wrote: post #135
gnarlouse wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least capitalism isn't at the center of the most impactful technological revolution in human history.

Not sure the larger point you're trying to make (maybe we're on the same page?), but it's a fact that AI has come from heavy long-term investments by the academic and public sectors, yet private companies are accruing most of the gains

The iPhone too, etc. These ppl, who think Capitalism as a religion in a couple of years will be singing another tune with the same reassurances.

The movie Goya’s Ghost explains this in great detail.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by alansaber »

redox99 wrote: post #9

It'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.

Token reselling stops working when providers literally won't work with you

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by therealdrag0 »

ralusek wrote: post #59
demibabs wrote: post #3

Wow, I don’t use cursor but that seems pretty bad for them. Is there a way to work around this (like using your OpenAI limits directly?)

It's basically not going to affect them at all. I don't know a single person that uses OpenAI models via Cursor. Saw another comment say it was 5%.

I used mostly OpenAI for the last like 6 months in cursor. I got tired of how slow Claude models are and switched. I’m surprised usage is so low. Wonder why.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by cavoirom »

rippeltippel wrote: post #113

I may be a rare Cursor user around here, but I am saddened by this news. The thing that keeps me using it is precisely the ability to switch between models: I usually do brainstorm/planning with Sol or Terra, then let Composer (free) deal with the implementation. For certain tasks I use Claude, which tends to be more expensive but sometimes saves me time. Using both OpenAI and Anthropic models, Cursor is cheaper than…

AmpCode is not popular here but I recommend it, give it I try and you will not go back, except the price may a bit expensive.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by therealdrag0 »

brightball wrote: post #78
iJohnDoe wrote: post #35

I guess I’m on the right track. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428835 If Claude pulls away from Cursor as well then Cursor is basically done.

I've been using Cursor with Grok 4.6 a lot over the last week or so. Grok Build as well. Both options are performing very well for me.

Ya I was slow to try Grok but I’m now happy with it.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by tanepiper »

What a shame for Cursor. I found it a great tool - I actually liked Composer 2.5; but now being bought by SpaceX has for a while left a bad taste - and they keep pushing Grok and now GrokBot.

I took the 50% discount instead of cancelling - but with this I'll likely not renew.

So sad to watch them go from great to mediocre in such a short time.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by chrisrickard »

damn... cursor doesn't get as much love as claude code or codex (on here anyways), but honestly, it's gotten amazing in the last 6 months.

i loved switching between sol / fable / grok 4.5.

... and something tells me fable might not be available on cursor for much longer :/

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