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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

#21

> We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. > After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company broke (opens in a new window) the terms of our contract (alongside many others). I have never seen one large company throw another large company under the bus wi…

Sam and Elon have a long standing feud. This is more than just bad blood between companies.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#22
I don't see how it makes sense to use models outside of Grok or Composer in cursor unless you like the tooling to such degree that you're willing to pay out the nose for access to OpenAI and Anthropic to use with that tooling. And Codex is regularly scoring towards the top among harnesses, so you might as well use the best harness available for the given model. I'm happy with Grok and Composer in Cursor. If Cursor wants to add more models, they should host more open models.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#23
post #7

While this isn't great for users it seems like a pretty standard circling of the wagons in preparation for the next phase in the battle for frontier AI dominance. Ironically, as a Cursor and Claude subscriber, but not an OpenAI subscriber, this will push me back to Anthropic. I don't feel good about giving OpenAI money directly, but I've found switching to GPT 5.6 Sol now and again in Cursor to be useful. Now I'll pr…

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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#24
Honestly, can't say I miss my Cursor subscription at all, and I'm surprised they're still a going concern. Why would I want to use a proprietary VSCode fork with an identity crisis when I can use literally any editor with any agent and have about the same experience?

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#27

Days until cursor announces open models… 3, 2, 1… Seriously though, when the api providers start blacklisting cursor and they’re forced to swap to open weight models… If that happens, what even is the difference between openrouter and cursor?

They already have open models.

https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#28
> We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them.

Do I smell a cursor-analogue from openAI?

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#29

Days until cursor announces open models… 3, 2, 1… Seriously though, when the api providers start blacklisting cursor and they’re forced to swap to open weight models… If that happens, what even is the difference between openrouter and cursor?

Well, one has a pretty popular harness.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#30
post #22

I don't see how it makes sense to use models outside of Grok or Composer in cursor unless you like the tooling to such degree that you're willing to pay out the nose for access to OpenAI and Anthropic to use with that tooling. And Codex is regularly scoring towards the top among harnesses, so you might as well use the best harness available for the given model. I'm happy with Grok and Composer in Cursor. If Cursor wa…

Is there a good place for harness comparison/scoring?
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