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SpaceX plans to acquire Cursor for $60 billion amid mixed reactions. Some users express skepticism about the valuation and product quality, while others hope Musk maintains the product's current success.

What the discussion says

  • Skepticism about Cursor's valuation and product quality.
  • Concerns over Musk's influence on X and Cursor.
  • Some users have canceled or stopped using Cursor.
  • Mixed feelings about the acquisition's impact.
“There's no way Cursor has $60bn of value. This is insane.”
— burnte
“I really hope Musk doesn't ruin the product itself.”
— Beannation

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  • Is 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).

    by frays
  • My whole team was on cursor for a few months. I enjoyed using it and thought it was the most complete of the agentic coding tools I tried. The thing that got me was the cost. I was switching between Opus and GPT 5.x and was spending anywhere between $500-1000/month. I was using a relatively normal workflow, paste in ticket, plan, execute with dumb sub agents, have the ai test and competing model to validate. The business got uncomfortable with the cost when everyone started doing the same so they switched us to Claude code since it has better cost controls. So far it looks like we won't even touch the $100/month plan and some people would be ok on the $20 plan. Anthropics usage limits is a consistent source of complaint on here but I've found them to be moderately generous in comparison to cursor. Cursor also charges a $.25Mtok premium for 'routing' no matter what model you choose. 5% increase for frontier models but when you're using haiku on sub agents that's a 50% cost increase. Composer is solid but if you don't have deep pockets it's the only feasible model on their platform because of how they bill it. Being an all in one editor/agent is nice but if you're in a language like c# or Java you're already swapping back and forth with a real IDE anyway.
    by sanex
  • > "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."

    They're all stealing your IP and selling it back to your competitors in the form of tokens.

    by davebren
  • This is a stupid comparison, but Mojang/Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014.

    Arguably the most popular video game of all time, which has brought joy to hundreds of millions of people for years and years, was valued at 1/20th of an AI startup that will soon disappear into irrelevance.

    While Minecraft is just a game, I'd argue it has more societal value than Cursor. The way things are valued is nonsensical to me.

    by buzzcut_
  • >> SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP.

    I very much can imagine a future documentary in a few years. With the host asking the audience: "Where were the signs?"

    by barredo
  • Back in the early days of Heroku (when I worked there), we were all fairly deep into the Ruby community. Ruby has never had a great reputation for performance, but... it seemed like almost a running joke that any time you went down a rabbit-hole trying to understand some weird performance issue you'd eventually discover that @tmm1 had already identified the same issue months earlier, patched it in core, and given an hour long talk about it somewhere. Despite his ability and willingness talk publicly about quite deep technical topics Aman always came across as an incredibly quiet and humble in person. Every Ruby developer has benefited from his attention to finding and fixing performance issues. I'm sure the same can probably said for every GitHub user (where he worked for years).

    Congrats to the entire Cursor team! I don't know all of their stories, but I do like to smile and celebrate a little when I see people who are often hidden in the shadows quietly making things x% better for all of millions of us every day for many years getting reward for that effort.

    by glenngillen
  • A 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...

    by Alifatisk
  • I stopped using Cursor when I started getting comfortable with Codex/Claude. Cursor is just annoying with the constant popups and it's just not as good. Now my workflow is to use my normal editor, add a todo describing what I want, and then ask Codex+gpt-5.5 to implement it. It absolutely nails it. Using codex is so much more like working with a partner vs the noise and annoyance of Cursor.

    That said, I think we're in a narrow window of time right now where any of this matters. Prompt "engineering" and working around your tools will be over in a year or so.

    Fwiw I am a c/c++ systems engineer. I think anyone mentioning anecdotal experience like this should clarify. Maybe frontend JavaScript folks have a totally different take and that's expected.

    by 01100011

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