Its a big deal, but I dont see it as a brilliant tech play

by Mark, Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 13:32 (3 days ago) @ HumanRobot

It certainly isnt a good deal for cursor customers.

Its just a financial play. Musk, once again, is going to leverage his newly gained assets to buy something that’s actually of great value, but has very little to do with his conglomeration of various Musk owned businesses.

And, if you look at the way Musk has destroyed/ manipulated Twitter … that’s going to be a disaster for cursor techies. How much has Musk’s terrible decisions driven customers/ users/ eyeballs away from twitter? He literally destroyed the twitter feed’s algorithm trying to promote himself and other wacko conspiracies. I expect the same disaster management to happen with Cursor.

Musk isnt bringing better value to the marketplace with this deal. He’s just using his financial leverage to buy something that’s actually good tech/ that he hopes will bring him more value, possibly just from a marketing perspective.