Cursor was simply able to get early access to openai models and get an early lead doing things that are now obvious and done better by many others. Does anyone really want to use a crippled "enhanced" vscode to interact with a crippled version of codex or claude code?
This comment reeks of someone who has not used Cursor, at least in 2026.
Please point to a video or example of some way that Cursor is remotely state of the art at anything...
It's a great thing for consumers and businesses to have another competitive, American coding harness + frontier coding model duo. No one wants a crippled version of codex or claude code and surely SpaceX isn't paying $60 billion for that outcome.
> another competitive, American coding harness
Isn't the Cursor founder British?
So they innovated, created a product and found users? Sorry to break it to you but that’s how software companies are built.
I tried it and it was extremely broken and dramatically overhyped. Which I guess is what Elon finds appealing about it, as that seems to be his preferred type of business.
Do you think people are using Cursor to interact with Claude Code? What?