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		lemonish97 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for... What's Cursor's moat here? I'm a bit surprised that xAI/SpaceX needs to buy them rather than building their own VScode forked IDE or an agentic UI/CLI.

babelfish 35 days ago | [–]

It's data. Nobody is using Grok for SWE work, but they are using Cursor.

andreygrehov 35 days ago | | [–]

Could be contracts.

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