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

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

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Post by sighthrowaway »

paganel wrote: post #642
sighthrowaway wrote: post #637

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re more worried about cost than you are being productive and getting good results then sure, stick with foundational model company apps.

“Being productive” without taking inputs/costs into consideration is an oxymoron.

A company that cares more about cost than results is probably a terrible company to work for. They will give you 10yo dell laptop with 8gb memory and complain that you’re slow when it takes 15m to build the application.

So no it’s not an oxymoron.

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

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Post by blitzar »

93po wrote: post #451
miffy900 wrote: post #162

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Yep. there's absolutely no way that Cursor is worth that much. for contrast, Elon paid $44b for twitter back in 2022. When you adjust for inflation, Twitter was acquired for $49b in 2026 money. Cursor getting bought for 1.22x more is just insanity. Elon seems unwilling to shake off the image that he has basically no idea what he's doing.

Elon Musk, the richest person on the planet, with multiple industry-changing companies built under his leadership, clearly has no idea what he's doing.

Its hard to think clearly when you are in a k-hole.

in ten the speed'll kick in, can of coke and a ciggy and he'll be right as rain

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

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Post by [deleted] »

darth_avocado wrote: post #346
geertj wrote: post #283

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SpaceX reuses its boosters 20+ times. Surely the depreciation is tiny when compared to the revenue of 60M+ per launch?

The entire space launch market is about $20B with multiple competitors in 2025. And by the most generous estimates it is going to be $80B by 2035. They can reuse the rockets as much as they like, the company isn’t worth $1.7T.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

chromadon wrote: post #646

It never occurred to me that LLMs would be used in the development of something like rockets and space-going vehicles.. A sobering thought.

Yeah, maybe it'll sober some people up to stop pretending they can't see how useful LLMs are in pretty much everything. A sharp tool to wield, easy to cut yourself with, but also extremely useful.

Honestly, it felt much stranger to me to learn, a few years ago, that they're 3D-printing rocket engines. With my experience limited to building my own PLA/ABS 3D printer out of salvaged motors and parts printed on another printer, it was hard to imagine how this is anywhere near safe and precise enough. But turns out, FDM-ing some plastic blobs is not the same as fusing Inconel powder with lasers. Same with using LLMs for software engineering (whether in aerospace culture or otherwise), it's just not the same as asking ChatGPT "please make me an app to do something idk how i cannot code send halp".

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Post by modo_mario »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #587
rob74 wrote: post #583

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What's crazy is that a company that sells an IDE (that's not even a particularly good one compared to competitors like JetBrains) integrating some AI plugins could be worth more than $60B...

They are now a Codex clone and without the subscription pricing. You have to spend thousands to get what you get from a $200 Codex subscription. How do they compete with this except from users who haven't caught on yet, or businesses that are unbothered to spend thousands a month per dev and wouldn't consider just subscribing to 1-3 $200 subscriptions instead? And their price is so high because it's markup on API rat…

What's the advantage over github copilot actually? They seem to have all the same access and features (except for this sheduling thing?) for cheaper.

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Post by mmkos »

tombert wrote: post #455
zacyungblut wrote: post #379

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Glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Even though I personally use Cursor, there’s no way it’s even a fraction of $60B

Why do you use it? Genuine question, I want to know what I'm missing. I guess I don't really understand what it buys you over just running vanilla VS Code and Codex.

The anti-Cursor sentiment here is baffling to me given how useful it is to me. I use it interactively and actively review everything it produces. I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it. Last I checked, vscode had none of those features. Do (seemingly most) people prefer Codex because it gives a greater degree of autonomy to the agents?

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

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Post by asJqiz »

chromadon wrote: post #646

It never occurred to me that LLMs would be used in the development of something like rockets and space-going vehicles.. A sobering thought.

xAI also owns Twitter, which is even less useful for SpaceX.

They need xAI as a reason for the narrative that data centers will be in space, so SpaceX can project far more growth before the IPO. After the IPO they'll find out that data centers in space are too expensive and overheat.

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