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

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Post by RugnirViking »

mmkos wrote: post #669
tombert wrote: post #455

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it

You can do that with claude code, github copilot (built into vs code) and codex, in any of their IDE versions, plugins for other ides (jetbrains, vscode, anything else you care to name) and also, of course, the CLI versions of all of them. They're also integrated into github, jira, and everything else.

Seriously, try other tools! if only to get a more balanced perspective.

This all being said, its been a long time since I last tried cursor... I'll give it a go.

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

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Post by GuB-42 »

Is is me or the world of finance is going crazy. Or maybe it has always been.

SpaceX, a rocket company owned by Elon Musk bought xAI, an AI company also owned by Elon Musk for... reasons. Don't give me the datacenters in space narrative, we all know it is bullshit.

It is then buying the option to buy a company for which the only contribution is a glorified VSCode plugin and the reselling of other companies LLM services at an absurd price. I understand that it is more complicated than that but 60 fucking billions, that's the GDP of a small country!

And now, Elon Musk intends to IPO SpaceX, which means he expect people to buy into all this bullshit. And considering that unlike me and judging by his wealth, he seems to be really good at understanding the market, so he is likely to be right.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

s08148692 wrote: post #737
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...

the IDE has little value What they want is the massive user base, the data (Cursor has a lot of high quality coding data for training), the teams expertise in coding models and agents, and the Composer models 60 billion is a large number but these frontier labs are burning billions a month in compute alone, and SpaceX is IPOing soon so they'll have a lot of cash to spend

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

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Post by jcelerier »

dubeye wrote: post #674
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...

Because of user count? Same was said about instagram. with all due respect, devs don't seem to understand business

Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences.

Reminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exists in 2026 but i'm still happily using rsync and mailing things around because dropbox has just absolutely never worked reliably for me, unlike my 2007 gmail account.

Likewise, if it were up to me, instagram and any business whose business model revolves around ads would be banned (because ads would be banned because advertisement is harmful in general).

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

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Post by maleldil »

542458 wrote: post #638
digitaltrees wrote: post #556

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Cursor is still the best I’ve used are there others I should try?

I've been using Kilo Code (VS Code Plugin) for the last few days, and it does most of what I liked in Cursor without tying me to their particular subscription. That said, people are increasingly migrating to CLI tools (Claude Code if you like the Claude models, Pi Agent if you want something that's highly customizable, Crush if you want something fun), or GUI tools that are less code-first (Codex GUI).

What makes Crush fun?

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

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Post by dubeye »

jcelerier wrote: post #744
dubeye wrote: post #674

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of user count? Same was said about instagram. with all due respect, devs don't seem to understand business

Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences. Reminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exists in 2026 but i'm still happily using rsync and mailing things around because dropbox has just absolutely never worked reliably for me, unlike my 2007 gmail account. Likewise, if it were up to me, ins…

It's fine to care about different stuff, but if you want to understand the valuation of a company, then your experience only goes so far. it's not going to make any sense unless you broaden your scope of interest to the metrics that impact valuation.

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

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Post by user34283 »

singularity2001 wrote: post #689
ymolodtsov wrote: post #655

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Their revenue and growth justified it. Plus, for xAI that could be the only way to get a SOTA coding model they want so hard.

I thought cursor became mostly obsolete with Claude Code and Codex TUIs?

Are TUIs not yesterday’s hot thing?

The way I work now in the Codex desktop app is that I spin up 3-5 conversations which work in their dedicated git worktree.

So while the agent works and runs the test suite I can come back to other conversations to address blockers or do verification.

Important is that I can see which conversation has an update and getting desktop notifications.

Maybe I could set this up with tabs in the Terminal, but it does not sound like the best UX.

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

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Post by dminik »

Wow. Tech CEOs and investors have completely lost touch with what money really is worth.

How is a VSCode fork and a open weight LLM fine-tune worth $60B?

One would think Elon would learn his lesson after overpaying for Twitter and then having to merge his failures together to stay afloat. But no, more cash into the burning pile.

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

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Post by kisamoto »

_bypa wrote: post #328

Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.

Zed - https://zed.dev/

Integrates a lot of agents (I use it with OpenRouter and directly with Pi) natively, is fast (you don't realise how laggy VSCode and its forks are).

Biggest disadvantage: lack of extensions. Lots of quality of life missing (e.g. gitignore integration to add/append gitignore files for different languages).

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