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This is just hog wash.
They are buying it for 60bn worth of SPCX Class A stock. This is Cursor’s board taking anything they can get for a company that has no future. Not a criticism against Cursor, but their market is standardising on Claude Code, and their value would rapidly head towards zero.
Class A stock has no voting rights. This is the investors of Cursor literally saying “being on Musk’s train to the moon is literally better than whatever future we have right now”.
We are moving away from cursor. Got too expensive
Interesting, where are you moving to?
We are looking into open router and kimi 2.7, mimo, glm 5.2 models.
You can still use opus/sonnet models all the same, they are just wicked expensive.
There are tools like opencode and kilocode for coding.
I had to move to Kimi K2.6 because Claude models are too expensive to use. BYK from OpenRouter. I have not tested GLM models.
As they stop subsidizing, everything is going to get more and more expensive until they price everyone out. If they are actually "selling shovels for a gold rush," they are cooked. A lot of companies can't afford to use Ai heavily anymore. Customers are going to dry up.
Exactly. It's hilarious just couple days back our ceo pulled 4 devs out and congratulated us on spending 2k a month each and apparently blowing company limit, I'm now tasked with finding alternatives hahaha. Definitely openrouter and kimi 2.7 and glm 5.2 are on my roadmap. I will need to do a presentation for ceo
I am surprised that anyone who can make decisions realized the June Ai bill was going to be crazy. I was betting it would take until July, when the crazy June bill is charged, for companies to realize they can't afford frontier models.
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?
They don't care at all about the vs code fork (probably his colossus data center with 89% vacancy can vibe code a clone in a few hours)
They care about the subscribed users and how they can enshittify their experience by removing access to Claude opus and introducing grok the Nazi vibe coder
Makes you wonder how sticky their product is though. I would just move to another product that has Claude if I suddenly had to use Grok.
imo not at all, like for the recent github copilot enshittification
users will groan and complain for a month then move to a different VS code fork, one year later nobody would even be able to remember the shape of the icon
Haven't used cursor but I assume it's like other harnesses where the special sauce is in how it manages context, schedules sub agents, feeds them context, enforces standards, uses tools and skills etc. that make it better then just directly prompting the model.
For example you prompt opus directly with "refactor the auth flow" and it's going to try and "one shot" it and produce the code from that prompt. Whereas a harness has instructions to say
Which produces way better results
Claude code's harness isn't the best, but it's still better than just promoting the model directly. One thing cursor has going for it is the vector embeddings of your codebase to make the harness more token efficient, but I still switched from cursor to managing parallel Claudes in cmux a few months ago and have had little reason to go back.
Local coding LLMs are going to be the hot new commodity this year.
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.
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.
