Perhaps I’m missing something, but isn’t Cursor simply a VSCode fork with some AI extensions integrated into it? Hate aside? What is the actual technical value of the product?
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While it is nowhere near the value Elon paid. It is a tool for easy coding with ai. Like the others thousands that out there. I mean spacex buying companies left and right at prices that make no sense is weird. Spacex being valued that much when all they do is burn money at a rate of several states is confusing.
Elon getting richer by the second with all that nonsense is suspicious....
$60 billion.
Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014.
"Cursor, help me figure out why this request is failing with a CORS error."
Thinking…
Reviewing sources…
- "Elon Musk on X"
- "Elon Musk Twitter acquisition" townhall recording
- "Programming best practices" and "Elon Musk"
Done.
It looks like everything needs to be thrown out and redone. The whole stack. It's not good, it's bloated, it was made by overpaid salary workers.
"What's wrong with the stack?"
The whole stack. Just the stack. All of it.
Because all space companies need a social network and an ai coding company. It just makes sense. And your pension needs to buy this very logical company because it's large enough to be in the index.
SpaceX is 80% an AI company. More now, after acquiring Cursor. The space stuff is only the reception desk.
SpaceX is an infrastructure company. Deeply dependent on government good will and contracts. It leases it's data center compute to actual AI companies.
This truly is the weirdest timeline. The only division of this shit company that brings in any money is the space and rockets division. However, the technology divisions are a money pit.
SpaceX is 100% a bullshit company. FTFY
I've come to call it SpaceXitterAI
Local coding LLMs are going to be the hot new commodity this year.
Harnesses for them is the key for me. Check out llama conductor
https://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
Smaller models being used more efficiently.
Already is, take a look at devstral, qwen3.6, deepseek coder. All can be run on a hugh end GPU and if you're a developer you likely have one.
Why would a developer likely have a high end GPU? Writing code doesn’t use a GPU.
There is a significant overlap between developers and gamers.
The vast majority of users ain't running anything but 27b max, more likely 14b, and that shit just ain't nearly as good as older saas models much less dominant like opus. Maybe for small shit but complex talks just ain't fitting on home hardware.
Completely agree, I forgot to mention that part. I am testing a few models ranging from 18b to 26b on my 7900xt. It is far from "make this complete system", but it can handle some smaller tasks. I think that will be the end goal anyway since cloud models fail a lot at maintainability, security, and other higher levels of thought that goes into coding. They can make a convincing prototype but I wouldn't hook it up to production.
Local models are already functioning well as a force multiplier. It can help explain logic, do minor refactoring, debugging etc. but with a bit of latency. I do think this is where we're headed since the frontier models required for generating a full prototype can't make production quality code and it is prohibitively expensive to do so. As far as I've heard, they're generally running spending ten times as much as they earn per token.
Sadly, that's true
Tried to refactor a spaghetti code state machine and thought, well, AI should handle this well. All the logic is there, just separate it into small functions to clean up the large one.
None was able to, alone because of the context window already
To be fair though, I tried Mistral online and it also stumbled around. ChatGPT was a complete clusterfuck - haven't tried Claude.
To be even fairer... it's a really large state machine, which was written on site during a fever and in stress - so... To defend myself a bit as well, how it even came to that ;-)
But seems, I'll need to go through this myself
Actually thought, that this would be a perfect example for using AI...
Yeah LLM's can help with many tasks but then there are times they just spout nonsense, or syntactically correct nonsense, the model size and context window just changes when they hit their limit.
Sometimes you have to call it quits, and try another way.
Wow, cursor costed more to Musk than twitter
Yet somehow less valuable. Isn't it just a fork of VSCode with more AI tools built in?
Pretty much. And is getting its lunch eaten by the fact that people are using tools like Claude code and open code instead of vscode interfaces.
This is cursor cashing out on top before the fallout and Musk being stuck with the bag.
Yeah that's hard for me to understand.
There goes all the money raised in the IPO.
I bet it will be a stock deal.
Don't worry, the losses will go straight to the retirement funds.
AFAIK it's less than 10%. But it's a start. 🤣🤣🤣
The IPO reportedly raised $85 billion
Valuation (which is where that "over $1 trillion" comes from) is a different thing entirely
Yes of course you are right, my bad.
The 1 trillion is an extrapolation.
is a validation of the soaring interest in AI-assisted coding.
Sure, buddy. Whatever makes you feel better.