I like Cursor as a product but the add on cost of $0.25/M tokens is just too expensive on top of the models.
Charging a percentage (like OpenRouter) would be much more fair IMO as smart-planner-cheap-subagents becomes more common.
SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#662They didn't wait a full week before dumping shit in the investors. Why would spaceX want to double down on AI after the pain xAI is giving them with no good models and no use for the hardware?
As I understand, the AI part makes $2B a month now (from Anthropic and Google).
The AI/compute revenue is higher than what the space department makes.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#663If you are able to leverage claude code, neovim, and tmux effectively cursor is no longer needed in the mix, but to each his own
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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#665There's no way in hell Cursor has $60bn of value This is insane.
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#666Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s all in a stock that may very well be near its zenith when this closes (or maybe not. This is so far past fundamentals it’s impossible to tell). They’re spending Monopoly money. It also seems like SpaceX is poised to Hoover up all of Elons companies so it’s might not be “just a space company” for long.
Elon's award is tied to growing Tesla's market cap - it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.
That’s not how it works. There’s provisions to adjust the targets if there’s M&A.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#667Is 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).
It's still my primary at work (data engineering/platform engineering), running a mix of GPT-5.5 and Composer 2.5. We also have Claude Code subscriptions. I find myself preferring Cursor for most tasks.
70% of the time I use AI agents on a pretty tight leash. I often reject edits and ask it to change things. The IDE integration is really efficient for this workflow compared to Claude (yes, I've tried the Claude extensions).
Autocomplete is still the best available (I've tried both Copilot and Zed); though admittedly it's not as important as it was circa last year.
For the 30% simpler or very well-specced tasks their cloud agents are last I compared way better than Claude Code's/Codex's version of the concept. @cursor for quick fixes in Slack works quite well. Don't get me wrong, it's still quite under-documented, but the others are worse. The integrations with linear, Slack and github are well executed
Composer 2.5 is really fast in their harness at code search/explanation/Q&A tasks (much faster than Sonnet/Opus). It's also really good at debugging, very proactive compared to other models in the same size/prices class IMO. Just due to the speed I actually prefer it to almost any other model for these tasks. I suspect at least some of this may be due to the harness and good codebase indexing.
I don't know why people are down on the Cursor harness. It's good. The main advantage of Claude Code/Codex are the token subsidies; but according to their dashboard I am costing my employer between $100-200/month on Cursor, so the overall price is comparable and only narrowing now that Anthropic is switching many enterprises to API usage.
I also don't understand the people complaining about VSCode bloat and in the same sentence praising Claude Code. Claude Code often uses MORE RAM than Cursor, has a super unstable UI (on my home machine there is input lag when typing ANYTHING in Claude Code) and the desktop app version of CC barely works. The Codex TUI is genuinely nice and snappy, on the other hand.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#668A 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...
>One of the things that makes @SpaceX
so valuable is how valuable it is. The Cursor acquisition costs materially less in dilution because of SpaceX’s high valuation.
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#669i hope they will integrate roblox for future generations of robot makers to be pre trained on games
Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
#670Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s all in a stock that may very well be near its zenith when this closes (or maybe not. This is so far past fundamentals it’s impossible to tell). They’re spending Monopoly money. It also seems like SpaceX is poised to Hoover up all of Elons companies so it’s might not be “just a space company” for long.
Elon's award is tied to growing Tesla's market cap - it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.
> it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag.
I agree, and most people do too, yet he'll get away with it. We're in the kleptocracy phase of the fall.