Goodbye, Cursor

Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription altogether. The same way I don’t have a Twitter account anymore, or I don’t own (nor plan to buy) a Tesla, I prefer not to associate myself with certain billionaires out there. Personal choice. There are several competitors of Cursor I’ll be checking in the next few weeks for my personal use (the market of AI-enhanced coding tools is quite booming at the moment), among which I’ll consider (in alphabetical order): Anthropic Claude Code Emergent Google Antigravity 2.0 JetBrains Junie OpenAI Codex Replit And I’ll give a second shot to GitHub Copilot, which I had tried in early 2023 but without good results.