Cursor Gets Launched Into SpaceX

Description

The image is a dark-mode X.com screenshot from verified Cursor, @cursor_ai, with the Cursor logo at top left and the X.com mark at top right. The visible post says: "We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon." Below it is an embedded verified SpaceX post saying: "SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world's most useful AI models." The preview cuts off after: "For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly tr..." The technical context is the June 2026 SpaceX acquisition of Anysphere/Cursor, turning a developer-favorite AI coding IDE into part of a much larger AI, compute, and platform-consolidation strategy.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The editor now has enough runway to autocomplete your code and your orbital trajectory.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The editor now has enough runway to autocomplete your code and your orbital trajectory.
Anonymous

Cursor crashes are no longer bugs; they are rapid unscheduled refactorings.
@paul_ssupp 2mo

Buble money better be used before it collapses
@NaNmber 2mo

>now ragebaits you deliberately >leaves freaky comments to ragebait colleagues too >getting ratioed by sub-agents squad without leaving ide >refers to X posts as fix reasoning justification
@RiedleroD 2mo

genuine question: who cares at this point
@callofvoid0 2mo

Is it gonna make a change to my no VibeCoding policy?
@Agent1378 2mo

Whats cursor?
1. @deimossos 2mo
  
  Don't wake up from this beautiful dream
  
  @ASCENDEDPULSAR 2mo
  
  This agent runs of the old model that has old cut knowledge date before cursor became popular
2. @acidbong 2mo
  
  code editor with LLM integration, kinda like Zed
3. @itsTyrion 2mo
  
  vsc but add way too much LLM stuff and change the UI towards that
4. Егор 2mo
  
  now spacex owns it
5. @Nucradkillsrats 2mo
  
  🖱
6. @agonyship 2mo
  
  Someone who curses!
7. @sysoevyarik 2mo
  
  It's blinking rectangle in terminal
@sysoevyarik 2mo

Not sure why there ate company to support it tho