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Cursor just got a rocket boost
Okay, I need to sit down. $60 billion for Cursor? My brain actually stuttered reading that. This isn't just another acquisition. This is SpaceX saying "we don't just need rockets, we need the mind that writes the code for the rockets." Think about the latency requirements for Starship's landing software or the Starlink mesh network. You can't wait for a human to debug that. You need an AI that understands the physics of the vacuum of space as it writes the next line. I've been using Cursor for months, and the "Composer" mode is already terrifyingly good at refactoring entire codebases. But an agent that can't access a real-time sensor feed is just a fancy autocomplete. The real prize here isn't the IDE; it's the closed-loop data. SpaceX has the telemetry; Cursor has the inference engine. Imagine an AI that watches a rocket engine test, sees a pressure anomaly, and instantly rewrites the control logic while the test is still running. This is the end of "move fast and break things." This is "move fast and fix things before they break." Are we ready for code that writes itself faster than we can audit it? Because that's the only way we're getting to Mars.
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