Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX for $60 billion exemplifies how iteration speed, not raw intelligence or initial resources, wins in fast-moving AI markets. The piece traces Cursor's reinvention from tab-complete IDE to full coding agent platform, its near-death moment when frontier labs seemed to pull away, and how combining superior product instincts with SpaceX's compute fortress positions it to dominate AI-assisted software development.
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