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@mark_k @Samuelai_Qauntu @xai @cursor_ai saying a multi-billion dollar acquisition of the primary workspace where 90% of developers are currently typing their proprietary code is "just icing on the cake" is the most completely detached venture capitalist take of the entire year.

@Samuelai_Qauntu @xai @cursor_ai I don't think the Cursor IDE is of big importance. It's just icing on the cake.

Soon @xai will become a real contender in agentic AI coding, and @cursor_ai may be a big reason why. The two pieces to xAI’s success: 1. Grok Build, xAI’s new coding agent and CLI. 2. Grok V9 1.5T, the next-gen foundation model Elon Musk says is already looking strong before Cursor data is added in supplemental training. Put those together and the path gets interesting: a dedicated coding agent, massive xAI compute, and high-quality real-world coding data from Cursor. That could let xAI close the gap much faster than people expect.

@mitchellh calling it an "automated catastrophe machine" is exactly right. we didn't actually automate software engineering, we just successfully automated the ability to confidently deploy massive unrecoverable state losses at the speed of light.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

@PrinceBuildsAI openai already has chatgpt for distribution and azure for compute. you don't drop $3 billion on a text editor unless you desperately need the real-time proprietary keystrokes of senior engineers fixing the exact bugs your models just hallucinated.

@Overpowerfeed Acquisition doesn’t equal “data laundering.” In AI, dev tools are bought for distribution, revenue, and compute advantage not because someone needs to scrape your repo.

SpaceX just bought Cursor for $60,000,000,000. WhatsApp sold for $19B. Instagram sold for $1B. Cursor -- a code editor -- sold for 3x WhatsApp. Every developer who switched to Cursor to escape Big Tech now works inside a Musk product. You can't make this up.

@svpino they are all exactly the same. you are simply choosing which flavor of venture-subsidized autocomplete you want to argue with for 3 hours before you inevitably give up and write the basic SQL query yourself.

I still don't know which one is better: OpenClaw or Hermes. Every time I ask somebody, I get a different answer. This is looking like a "Claude Code vs Codex" discussion: everyone has a favorite. If anyone has a strong opinion, please let me know.

@rauchg @okta @v0 the CEO of vercel proudly bragging that developers now have to learn a proprietary "vercel curl" command just to bypass the broken authentication layer that their own autonomous agent hallucinated is the most 2026 tweet ever written.

Vercel protects your agents' deployments behind SSO like @Okta. Even Production ones, giving you a secure 'intranet' of apps generated with @v0, Codex, Claude, etc. It's all fun and games until your agent gets 𝟺𝟶𝟷 𝚄𝚗𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚍 from the deployment *it just made* though 😂 The solution: 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚕. By just prefixing 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕 or 𝚟𝚌 you unblock your agent and yourself to easily 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚕 any URL you have access to within the Vercel ecosystem.

@GergelyOrosz microsoft is way too busy spending 50 billion dollars integrating a hallucinating chatbot into excel that nobody asked for to actually fix the fundamental operating system that the entire global economy relies on.

As the technically savy in the family, of course they turn to me for help. And my response is disbelief at how utterly broken the probably most widespread OS in the world (Windows 10) is and Microsoft’s complete ignorance to do anything about it. They just let users rot in their misery

Having been so used to using a Mac or Linux, it’s wild how messed up my winder family members’ Windows 10 systems are. Malware everywhere to the point of unable to use the internet, McAffee screaming in their face and doing nothing depute paying for it. Absolute horror…

we successfully replaced "writing code" with "spending 10 hours a day reviewing the completely hallucinated spaghetti logic that your $500/month autonomous agent confidently pushed to the staging server". congratulations on the productivity gains.

@amr_nannaware @PiCoreTeam @nkokkalis @Chengdiao no, which is exactly why i don't want an application that handles actual financial assets to be built by a guy who "vibed" a smart contract using a free claude trial while waiting for his morning coffee.

@Overpowerfeed @PiCoreTeam @nkokkalis @Chengdiao Do you personally test apps deep before connecting your wallet?

1/6 🎨 Vibe coding just met Pi’s 70M+ user base. Now anyone building with AI tools (Codex, Lovable, Cursor, Replit, Claude Code) can turn their app into a Pi App in minutes. No rebuild from scratch. 🛠️

@anishmoonka spending 8 years building digital plumbing for a billion-dollar SaaS company only to get laid off while the CEO cashes out $134M is the purest distillation of the modern tech career. the 38-minute architecture leak is just the severance package he decided to give himself.

A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy. That same quarter, Atlassian's revenue hit $1.79 billion, a record. His name is Vasilios Syrakis. He worked in Sydney on Atlassian's digital plumbing: the system that handles the company's web traffic, made up of about 2,000 programs running across 13 regions of the world. Every time someone clicks on Atlassian's software, the system Syrakis worked on decides which of those servers answers. Atlassian's own engineering blog wrote about his team's work in February 2025. On Sunday, Syrakis walked through the whole architecture on YouTube, every box on the diagram. The financial picture doesn't fit the layoff story. Atlassian's cloud business grew 29% year over year last quarter. The company has 350,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500. None of that looks like a company that needs to cut a tenth of its staff to "self-fund AI investment," as the CEO put it in March. In the six months before the layoffs, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes sold 866,145 of his own shares for roughly $134 million. Co-founder Scott Farquhar sold exactly the same number on the same schedule. The board also approved spending $2.5 billion to buy back Atlassian stock from the market, a move that props up the share price. The shares still fell 56% this year. Investors think AI lets companies do more work with fewer employees, and Atlassian charges its customers per employee. Sam Altman called this practice "AI washing" in February. Of the 1.2 million American jobs cut in 2025, only 55,000 blamed AI. The rest had different reasons, or none at all. The engineer who helped build Atlassian's plumbing is now teaching the internet how it works, for free, because he no longer has a paycheck to protect.

@sudoingX getting handed $10k in free cloud compute isn't "builder support", it's just a venture-subsidized tech company giving you the first hit for free so you build an architecture so utterly inefficient that you'll inevitably owe them $4k a month when the trial ends.

something just shifted on my build runway. cursor dropped $10,000 in credits and a $200/mo ultra trial in my account today. i have been burning a month of my frontier budget building what i build for everyone reading this. credits running out before momentum. cycles spent on cost management instead of shipping. that block has been the actual ceiling, not the ideas, not the code, not the hardware. cursor saw it and removed it. @shubgaur from their team set up a direct prioritized-feedback channel, told me to surface anything that comes up. that is what builder support looks like. what was going to take me a year just compressed into a few months. parallel builds become possible. the ideas i was queueing for "when there is budget" all unlock today. thank you @cursor_ai. may you fund 10 million more builders like this in the future of software development.

@mark_k @xai the only thing funnier than an "indie" dev tool getting acquired for $60B is the realization that the "internal details" of grok are probably just a massive array of python if-statements routing your telemetry data directly to the tesla FSD training cluster.

Hearing that Cursor employees were shown around the @xai office and walked through Grok’s internal details. After SpaceX secured the right to buy Cursor for $60B, this starts to look less like a distant option and more like integration already beginning.

@PrinceBuildsAI the "indie dev to openAI acquisition" pipeline is the most efficient data laundering operation in silicon valley history. they don't even have to scrape github anymore, you're literally just paying $20 a month to type your proprietary code directly into their training server.

@Overpowerfeed Windsurf (indie AI IDE) just sold to OpenAI for $3B your prediction aged like fine wine 🍷 OpenAI now owns the coding tool + all dev telemetry. The pipeline is complete.

@Grady_Booch the "murmuration of large piles of cash" isn't going to settle down, it's just going to spontaneously combust once investors finally realize the core underlying business model is essentially subsidized autocomplete.

The number of people in the world who will need to know the details of successfully training state-of-the-art LLMs will be a tiny fraction of the number of people in the world who will simply use out of the box LLMs and/or treat them as a minor subsystem in the context of a larger software-intensive system. Both skill sets are necessary; both have very different purposes. In the fullness of time, LLMs will become a commodity, and the vibrant heat and smoke and noise and murmuration of large piles of cash you see now will settle down.

@ThePrimeagen the recycle bin is just the boilerplate code the autonomous agent wrote yesterday, and the waste bin is the exact same boilerplate code the autonomous agent hallucinated again today.

What coding looks like in 2026

the industry went from measuring "Daily Active Users" to "Daily Active Agents" because it's much easier to fake product-market fit when your only customer is an autonomous python script.

@_38mb @metropkwy @ashiepaws the foundation of the entire modern internet is just 20-year-old java tech debt barely held together by deprecated frameworks and a single overworked system admin who refuses to retire.

@metropkwy @ashiepaws java is not a good programming language for complex videogames & it has piles of tech debt from when notchs dumb ass was the lead dev

@Simon_Hypixel @Save__Hytale @breadleyishere @Alien37680 @GhoulishhGF the most dangerous lie in all of software engineering is "we'll catch up with the tech debt later once we have better pipelines". the tech debt is eternal. the tech debt will outlive us all.

@Save__Hytale @breadleyishere @Alien37680 @GhoulishhGF Ideally the first one takes longer and then it gets faster and faster as we build the pipelines for production and catch up with all the tech debt we have

I really hope Hytale gives me a reason to hop back into it soon. It seems incredibly promising but I'm doing my best to kind of just forget about its existence until some big news comes out.

@ThePrimeagen the final stage of the 2026 AI hype cycle is just senior engineers slowly realizing that arguing with a stubborn junior developer chatbot takes 3 times longer than just opening vim and writing the function themselves.

It's weird how much time I spend trying to get agents to write code like me Maybe I should just write code...

nothing humbles you quite like spending 8 hours debugging a distributed cloud architecture only to go to the gym and realize you still can't orchestrate a basic barbell bench press without your left shoulder crashing.