Well that didn't take long.....
SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#602In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.
I am seriously thinking about adapting Kate with a fully opensource ai harness. it should be good enough for mac and linux for most devs. it already supports lsp server & has a established plugin infra so it should not really be any blockers. anybody wanna collab?
this class of spyware pretending to be ide makes me sick.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#603A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...
when you see the list of major investors in Cursor that will never break even if it stays independent, and compare it to the investors in SpaceX, it all makes sense.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#604"In its IPO filing, the company had said Cursor's access to developers' data, including coding requests and design decisions, could help improve its AI models such as Grok."
This seems to be the key.. Data is expensive
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#605A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...
It is crazy that a company like SpaceX was allowed to exist.
The whole big tech industry needs Microsoft/MSN style breakups again.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#606I use cursor (through a work subscription), only the cli ( https://cursor.com/cli ), and mostly using Composer 2.5, but I freely change the model when the need arises. Most comments here seem to think there is no command line client? I have never used the editor. For my personal projects, I use a heavily modified pi. I also have access to a claude code account through work (bedrock), but I don't use it much. It alway…
I find when working with just a single model (Codex / Claude Code), it tends to have more blind spots. So it's nicer to have different models review each others.
Also with Cursor you can make plans with more expensive models and execute using cheaper ones like Composer 2.5.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#607They should rename it to XCode. Oh wait…
They should rename it to CodeX. Oh wait…
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#608I love cursor. It's so frustrating that large companies are allowed to buy everything. Think of a world where github was still independent, cursor remained independent, heroku wasn't part of Salesforce. All great products that get eroded by the neglect of big tech.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#609They can’t build something like Cursor with AI for less than $60B?
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#610A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...
The total addressable market (TAM) for SpaceX is finite. There are only so many nation-states and large corporations that want to launch payloads into orbit. And even if their internet service provider is uniquely capable for now, it only fills a strategic need for certain customers. So instead, Musk and Co. need to find bubbling market trends that look like they will have huge gigantic TAMs to justify the potential…
Last week a 13 year old video of ceo of Ariane Airspace got popular on twitter. When asked about spacex and reusable rockets he said: "there are only 25 satellites launched a year, every year, and that’s not going to change"
Currently a single Starlink launch is 25 satellites. And there are 100 such launches a year.