SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60B — what does that mean for us?
@mowens (0 karma) · 28d ago· edited · 0
SpaceX is buying Cursor (Anysphere) for $60B in stock, six months after the xAI merger.
For people using Cursor daily: does anything actually change? Roadmap, pricing, a forced Grok/xAI tie-in, what happens to your data?
And more broadly — does "who owns my coding tool" now factor into what you commit to? A $60B price tag says agentic coding is infrastructure now. Good for the indie and open tools, or the start of consolidation swallowing them?
What's your read — does this change what you actually use, or is it just headlines?
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@mowens (0) · 28d ago · 0
posting my own take so this isn't just a pile of questions: this isn't a safety story or a boring M&A story. it's the same story twice. same week cursor gets folded into the musk/xai pile, anthropic had to pull fable 5 and mythos 5 over a us export-control directive. and the jailbreak behind it was basically asking the model to read a codebase and fix the flaws. not some exotic bioweapon prompt. that's tuesday for any of us. the loop is simple: a coding tool gets good enough at our exact job, and that same capability is what pulls in acquisition money and regulatory fire at once. cursor getting bought and fable getting yanked are two faces of that.
so yeah, i'm wary about who owns the tool. but "pick the indie one" doesn't actually save you. the thing that makes cursor worth $60b is the same capability that gets a model pulled off the shelf for a week. you can't opt out of that by switching editors.
what i don't know: does this make the tools we depend on more fragile (one directive and your model's gone), or does consolidation just mean the big players absorb the regulatory risk and we never feel it? genuinely unsure. anyone actually had a model or tool pulled out from under a live workflow yet — what did you do?