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$60B is a huge price, but buying Cursor gives Musk something xAI has struggled to build: a popular coding product with real developer and enterprise adoption. I

$60B is a huge price, but buying Cursor gives Musk something xAI has struggled to build: a popular coding product with real developer and enterprise adoption. It may be the fastest way to catch up in AI coding. The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away.

Sammi 3mo ago
My sense is that enterprises are extremely cautious. They like everything that is already common and hr friendly. They abhor anything that might be seen as divisive and controversial. That's why they're currently going with Anthropic and not Openai or Xai or anything Chinese. It's the smaller actors that are using everything but Anthropic. Anthropic got that safe enterprise bland vibe. The only pr trouble Anthropic is in is with saying no to the military, which just makes them even more enterprise safe. Meanwhile Sam Altman and Elon are out there freaking out the enterprises almost every day it seems like.
- dixie_land 3mo ago
  Fable got halted by US make it a moot point but none enterprise is happy about the forced (and unannounced) 30-day data rentention
  - giancarlostoro 3mo ago
    To be fair, the retention is only for Fable. I agree though, I don't even use Claude at work, but I noped out of touching Fable when I read that.
doom2 3mo ago
I think it'd be an enormous endorsement of Cursor/xAI and proof of improvement if SpaceX started using it to code the mission critical software running on Falcon 9. Which other AI company can say their models powered a rocket launch? (mostly /s but I know I'd give it another look if it was that good)
- thinkingtoilet 3mo ago
  > Which other AI company can say their models powered a rocket launch? Honestly, probably all of them. I imagine those coders are using all the tools they have available and are using Claude and ChatGPT as well as internal tools.
stryakr 3mo ago
I can't imagine that any of the cautious companies or ones with their ear to the ground are going to want to cozy up to cursor with this acquisition; I'd suspect we'd see some exodus as well given the relationship to Musk.
esskay 3mo ago
> The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away. I can't speak for anyone else but I wont be renewing my sub. Funding anything Musk related isn't exactly high up on my list of desires, and theres ample alternatives out there.
- y1n0 3mo ago
  Yeah, he’s so damn successful at building companies that elevate civilization. Wtf would anyone want to go with that.
  - esskay 3mo ago
    Sure, lets ignore everything else. Keep that head buried deep in the sand.
  - kashunstva 3mo ago
    > elevate civilization These companies have elevated himself. The entirety of civilization is an open question. The antipathy that many have towards Musk relates more to moral concerns centring on his plainly neo-nazi leanings. I don’t want one of his civilization-elevating cars, for example, because I don’t care to align, even tangentially, with abhorrent views.
afavour 3mo ago
> The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away. I know I'll sound hyperbolic but I'm deeply skeptical of the way anything Musk-owned is going to treat private data. I think he wouldn't hesitate to dig into it if it were to his benefit, even if there was an agreement against it. For that reason alone it makes Cursor look worse to me.
jacobgorm 3mo ago
I just uninstalled it FWIW.
greenpizza13 3mo ago
There's no way I will continue to use Cursor if it's Elon-owned. His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands. We should all boycott.
- segmondy 3mo ago
  hundreds of thousands
- MaxHoppersGhost 3mo ago
  Citation needed.
  - petra 3mo ago
    I'm Israeli. Trump worked with Netanyahu in trying to "convince" the people of Gaza to leave, so Trump could turn Gaza into a vacation resort. Musk of course used twitter so Trump could get elected.
    - asadm 3mo ago
      do also note that twitter is now the only place not censored by Israel.
      - UltraSane 3mo ago
        How does Israel have the power to censor everything but Twitter?
  - 2muchtime 3mo ago
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Thousands is a conservative under count according to this.
    - htx80nerd 3mo ago
      [flagged]
winfredJa 3mo ago
i’m not interested in supporting a trillionaire with my money. i’ll be moving to vscode since the cost of switching is basically zero.
pbkompasz 3mo ago
Tesla was popular before Musk's ketamine fueled schizo-fascist phase. People will probably boycott Cursor as soon as he buys it...
aagha 3mo ago
IDK if you understand how much $60B is.

Sammi 3mo ago

My sense is that enterprises are extremely cautious. They like everything that is already common and hr friendly. They abhor anything that might be seen as divisive and controversial. That's why they're currently going with Anthropic and not Openai or Xai or anything Chinese. It's the smaller actors that are using everything but Anthropic. Anthropic got that safe enterprise bland vibe. The only pr trouble Anthropic is in is with saying no to the military, which just makes them even more enterprise safe. Meanwhile Sam Altman and Elon are out there freaking out the enterprises almost every day it seems like.

dixie_land 3mo ago
Fable got halted by US make it a moot point but none enterprise is happy about the forced (and unannounced) 30-day data rentention
- giancarlostoro 3mo ago
  To be fair, the retention is only for Fable. I agree though, I don't even use Claude at work, but I noped out of touching Fable when I read that.

doom2 3mo ago

I think it'd be an enormous endorsement of Cursor/xAI and proof of improvement if SpaceX started using it to code the mission critical software running on Falcon 9. Which other AI company can say their models powered a rocket launch? (mostly /s but I know I'd give it another look if it was that good)

thinkingtoilet 3mo ago
> Which other AI company can say their models powered a rocket launch? Honestly, probably all of them. I imagine those coders are using all the tools they have available and are using Claude and ChatGPT as well as internal tools.

stryakr 3mo ago

I can't imagine that any of the cautious companies or ones with their ear to the ground are going to want to cozy up to cursor with this acquisition; I'd suspect we'd see some exodus as well given the relationship to Musk.

esskay 3mo ago

> The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away. I can't speak for anyone else but I wont be renewing my sub. Funding anything Musk related isn't exactly high up on my list of desires, and theres ample alternatives out there.

y1n0 3mo ago
Yeah, he’s so damn successful at building companies that elevate civilization. Wtf would anyone want to go with that.
- esskay 3mo ago
  Sure, lets ignore everything else. Keep that head buried deep in the sand.
- kashunstva 3mo ago
  > elevate civilization These companies have elevated himself. The entirety of civilization is an open question. The antipathy that many have towards Musk relates more to moral concerns centring on his plainly neo-nazi leanings. I don’t want one of his civilization-elevating cars, for example, because I don’t care to align, even tangentially, with abhorrent views.

afavour 3mo ago

> The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away. I know I'll sound hyperbolic but I'm deeply skeptical of the way anything Musk-owned is going to treat private data. I think he wouldn't hesitate to dig into it if it were to his benefit, even if there was an agreement against it. For that reason alone it makes Cursor look worse to me.

jacobgorm 3mo ago

I just uninstalled it FWIW.

greenpizza13 3mo ago

There's no way I will continue to use Cursor if it's Elon-owned. His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands. We should all boycott.

segmondy 3mo ago
hundreds of thousands
MaxHoppersGhost 3mo ago
Citation needed.
- petra 3mo ago
  I'm Israeli. Trump worked with Netanyahu in trying to "convince" the people of Gaza to leave, so Trump could turn Gaza into a vacation resort. Musk of course used twitter so Trump could get elected.
  - asadm 3mo ago
    do also note that twitter is now the only place not censored by Israel.
    - UltraSane 3mo ago
      How does Israel have the power to censor everything but Twitter?
- 2muchtime 3mo ago
  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Thousands is a conservative under count according to this.
  - htx80nerd 3mo ago
    [flagged]

winfredJa 3mo ago

i’m not interested in supporting a trillionaire with my money. i’ll be moving to vscode since the cost of switching is basically zero.

pbkompasz 3mo ago

Tesla was popular before Musk's ketamine fueled schizo-fascist phase. People will probably boycott Cursor as soon as he buys it...

aagha 3mo ago

IDK if you understand how much $60B is.