Elon is still all in on replacing programmers. He listens to always the same stupid booster accounts (XFreeze etc.).
Good that there is now an administration that creates jobs, does not engage in foreign wars and has ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
imagent 1 hours ago [-]
Keep in mind while this is the date they officially became part of SpaceX, they have already been collaborating on building models together. So don't expect a significant bump in performance on new Grok models due to the additional data from Cursor--that bump already happened with Grok 4.5[1] and now 4.6.
I get it and yet I don't. On one hand, my experience with Cursor (albeit limited) tells me that it's a perfect fit with Elon's other ventures. Then again, I don't see how there's anything so special about it that SpaceXAI would want to acquire it for either the software itself or the talent behind it. It seems more likely that acquiring Cursor is a way to get more users for Grok, seeing as how it still has a very small share of the market.
freedomben 26 minutes ago [-]
I've never seen the appeal of cursor either, but then I'm a decades-long vim (now neovim) guy and don't use IDEs in general. But for me claude/codex TUIs are a great way to fit agents into my workflow.
My suspicion is that it's a way to break into more developer workflows for Grok, even if the market share is relatively small. I've never used grok and don't plan to at this point, but I have highly respected friends who say it is pretty damn good, and some of them even started using Cursor because of this pairing, so anecdatally at least it does seem to be working.
stronglikedan 16 minutes ago [-]
So they can play the game that the other big AI companies are playing, where they invest in one another to make each one look bigger on the books, even though it's all the same money, likely.
modeless 38 minutes ago [-]
The data is special. Data of programmers using coding agents in the real world is invaluable for AI training. And their customer base is useful to deploy new models into.
26 minutes ago [-]
sidcool 1 hours ago [-]
They were not joking
mock-possum 59 minutes ago [-]
Shame.
stronglikedan 20 minutes ago [-]
Why? The product isn't likely to change
thecrumb 4 hours ago [-]
Eeeewww. Grok. Off to look at Zed.
jjtheblunt 25 minutes ago [-]
Zed's very handy, I find, and i'm not saying so because i'm driven to it by aversion to alternatives: it's just very useful.
nxc18 13 minutes ago [-]
Why not just use VS Code which cursor (and antigravity and the one Amazon is pushing) is a fork of? It will be much closer in functionality and has been loaded up with agent features nonstop for the last 18 months.
midnitewarrior 57 minutes ago [-]
...and I won't be revisiting Cursor again.
stronglikedan 19 minutes ago [-]
Why not? The product isn't likely to change
sudonem 7 minutes ago [-]
Some people perhaps just don’t want to give money to literal Bond villains. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sajithdilshan 42 minutes ago [-]
…and the world kept spinning
spottedmarley 4 hours ago [-]
...to the moon?
oniony 1 hours ago [-]
Think the aim is Mars.
tshaddox 1 hours ago [-]
Earlier this year they literally publicized changing their immediate goal from Mars to the Moon.
Ekaros 1 hours ago [-]
Perfect tool for rocket control systems and in general control and life support systems of Mars colonies.
aanet 1 hours ago [-]
Vibe codin' away the colonization of Mars
an0malous 50 minutes ago [-]
It’s been enshittified to the Moon now
kykat 51 minutes ago [-]
I swear I actually laughed out loud with this, is this a joke?
stronglikedan 18 minutes ago [-]
Companies buy other companies all the time, so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised.
rvz 45 minutes ago [-]
No.
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Good that there is now an administration that creates jobs, does not engage in foreign wars and has ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
[1] https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5
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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224
My suspicion is that it's a way to break into more developer workflows for Grok, even if the market share is relatively small. I've never used grok and don't plan to at this point, but I have highly respected friends who say it is pretty damn good, and some of them even started using Cursor because of this pairing, so anecdatally at least it does seem to be working.