I literally just spent this weekend building a full-stack Next.js project from scratch using Cursor's Composer. The productivity boost is insane compared to my workflow a year ago. $60B sounds wild, but the value it provides to solo devs is very real.

Space rocket company acquires a text editor and tuned llm? Because......

It looks like this is just an "option" to acquire Cursor at that price? Implying they only plan to exercise the option under certain conditions (such as, one might presume, Cursor actually being worth that much. As right now it definitely isn't.)

I guess it makes more sense than shoe brands pivoting to GPU provider.

Spacex already owns Twitter and xai, trying to post-rationalize with justification like they have servers doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's all accounting at this point.

Never bet against Elon.

Guardian Link:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/spacex-cu...

Clearly the intention behind this is to get access to user data (user code).