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What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviou
by AirMax98 5mo ago
What are we even doing here.
I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
- kevin_thibedeau 5mo agoHe's offloading the loss from buying Twitter. This is the smoke and mirrors phase.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> He's offloading the loss from buying Twitter That already happened with xAI-X merged with SpaceX.
- infinitewars 5mo agoTrying to posture for Golden Dome, but politically he is likely locked out of the contract.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> no idea what this has to do with aerospace SpaceX is no longer SpaceX per se, but SpaceX-xAI. My TL; DR (and this is mine, personally) is its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacentres are a demand excuse for putting lots of solar panels in space. Going one level down, more Cursor use is a demand excuse for putting lots of datacentres anywhere.
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- riffraff 5mo agoThis is like me, a couch potato, pivoting from "I'm going to run a half marathon" to "I'm going to do a marathon in under ten minutes"
- tadfisher 5mo agoIf we're talking Dyson spheres, this is like going from a half-marathon to running the distance from Earth to Betelgeuse. It's just not a realistic endeavor.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoIt's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities. My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.
- cramsession 5mo ago> this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream. I think Musk being a ketamine addict explains a lot and this is very aligned. Given that he can't build a self-driving car, he would have to be under the influence of very strong drugs to think he could build a Dyson sphere of all things. That being said, some sort of financial fraud is even more on brand.
- taneq 5mo agoDumb question, do the cybercab thingies not drive themselves? Having a safety driver doesn’t disqualify them if for the vast majority of the time they’re autonomous. It just means they’re earlier into chasing 9’s than Waymo. The characterisation of “level 5” autonomy as the car handling any conceivable circumstance (not that you explicitly made this claim here) is just silly. Humans can’t handle any conceivable circumstance either.
- cramsession 5mo agoNo they do not drive themselves. They're not Waymos (which do drive themselves, without a driver).
- taneq 5mo ago
- BobbyTables2 5mo agoPlot twist: Build the Dyson sphere around Earth and charge for sunlight…
- ButlerianJihad 5mo ago"Have You Ever Seen the Sun Set at 3pm?" https://youtu.be/hjdMYyjnmks?si=iyoVV-oZAPmQtp1B https://youtu.be/hjdMYyjnmks?si=iyoVV-oZAPmQtp1B
- codingusuir 5mo agothis is Elon's desperate move to fix his weak coding problem. He recently stated he feels he is far behind in agentic coding, and that apparently that's what matters.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> He recently stated he feels he is far behind in agentic coding, and that apparently that's what matters Sure. My question was why. And my loose interrogation of the question, together with some unique domain expertise, suggests he found an excuse to work towards a Dyson sphere.
- kibwen 5mo ago> its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere Obligatory mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoShe put it in the same category as AI or human-shaped robots. Those are two things Musk is working on. I stand by my theory.
- pythonaut_16 5mo agoArguably more accurate is that it pivoted from colonising Mars to Elon's personal piggy bank to bail out his other failing bets.
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoSpaceXXX
- Lermatroid 5mo agoAFAIK cursor is basically the only player right now not subsidizing tokens out the ass, and has been seeing solid growth across individual and enterprise with almost every model performing best in their harness. Not sure how that’s a serious decline.
- calmoo 5mo agoOn the contrary, anecdotally, myself and every engineer I know have switched fully from cursor to claude code since the start of the year. I now use zed with cc. I personally could not stand the buggy mess and constant UI changes of cursor. It’s also not good value in terms of claude tokens compared to claude code.
- brightball 5mo agoWhat sold you on Zed?
- AdrienPoupa 5mo agoI recently switched as well. Being able to work in a large monorepo without the editor freezing and taking 15+GB of RAM was a strong selling point :)
- calmoo 5mo agoIt’s fast, looks nice and since i really just review agent output these days, that’s good enough. They don’t move everything around and it moves at a nice pace.
- Analemma_ 5mo agoI would like to know where you’re seeing this, because my strong impression is exactly the opposite: a year ago, everyone was talking about Cursor, but I haven’t heard anything about it in months. It’s all Claude Code and Codex now. In terms of mindshare they seem dead already.
- RevEng 5mo ago
- wrqvrwvq 5mo agoai trends seem to mirror general coding/software trends but compressed. People used to edit programs with sed, but the ide proved to be more powerful from every perspective. cli tools always have their place for "power-users" and other specialized intermediate usecases like tui's, but in general the ide has overtaken every aspect of cli use and many devs hardly ever use the terminal. I suspect a similar thing will happen with ai.
- ajross 5mo agoWhile surely someone has done human-driven editing with sed, that's not what it's for. Remember that ed is the standard editor.
- SilverElfin 5mo agoIsn’t it obvious? Musk bailed out his Twitter investors with xAI. Then he bailed out xAI with SpaceX. Now he realizes that no one thinks xAI is worth the hundreds of billions he claimed it was in that potentially fraudulent transaction, and is trying to make Grok and xAI relevant by getting access to customers in the AI coding space. But in the end, it’s SpaceX share holders who are being made fools of and soon, especially with the Nasdaq fast track changes to incorporate SpaceX forcefully into everyone’s passive investments, the public will be the one who is made poorer. But Musk will become a trillionaire.
- cindyllm 5mo ago[dead]
- joegibbs 5mo agoSpaceX is just going to be the Musk Company minus Tesla. X Corp, the X parent, is a subsidiary of xAI which is a subsidiary of SpaceX. This seems back to front, but I suppose SpaceX has the better reputation for investors whereas if X owned SpaceX the IPO would be devalued by the association with Twitter.
- scottyah 5mo agoAnthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all investing heavily in their desktop type apps, I think the TUI phase is coming to an end.
- skippyboxedhero 5mo agoIDE is a moat with people who can code.
- zacyungblut 5mo agoHow much is Cursor really beyond a VSCode fork? Like, do we really think no one else could figure that out?
- YmiYugy 5mo agoCursor seems to be pivoting to a Codex like desktop app. The real product though is probably their decently tuned harness and their composer models. I agree that their popularity has waned. I would attribute that mostly to customers chasing the most subsidized tokens and Cursor not having the pockets to keep up. Anthropic is already following suit and it seems unclear how long OpenAI is willing to continue. I think in a case of a market correction that forces model makers to adopt more reasonable growth targets, that Cursor is decently positioned.