Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:41PM
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For a lot of people, Grok is the first AI they got to use through Twitter. Grok does get quite a lot of usage, and isn't out of the game - coding tools aren't the only use case for AI.
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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by bdangubic on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:42PM
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this is like saying people still use google glass. sure, some people
might but AI-wise it is as dead of a product as it gets
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:44AM
(#48567109)
Google glass has been discontinued? Besides, many people use it on Twitter everyday. Usage is not limited to what you can see on the Openrouter dashboard.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by bdangubic on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:45AM
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many people use copilot inside outlook to auto-complete their sentences as well :)
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:32AM
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Meaning that Copilot is actually a success, even if you don't like it ;-)
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by pqtyw on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:14PM
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Because Microsoft managed to sell it to a huge number of companies, not directly because people are using it. Hardly anyone is paying for Grok.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:44PM
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US government is paying for Grok to help it send bombs on Iranians. That's a use case.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by bdangubic on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:46AM
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with this thinking I wish that all your products are as successful as copilot is ;-)
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:45PM
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A bad product can be successful with the right distribution. This is what happens with Grok and Copilot.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by pqtyw on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:13PM
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> Twitter everyday
So what? How much money is that making?
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by jerojero on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @06:18AM
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these users are probably losing the company money.
the failure is in converting regular people into actual ai product consumers. Companies are realising that the money is not in regular consumers but in enterprise and they are not considering grok as a serious alternative.
if anything, the name, the branding and the x/twitter affiliation has hurt adoption from money makers rather than help it.
so yes, people know it, but no one is willing to pay for it
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by Saline9515 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:40AM
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Depends, Grok stimulates engagement and pushes to stay on the plaform and feed it data. If anything, it helped justify a massive valuation for SpaceX, which is a metric of success for most corpos.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f...
by pqtyw on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:13PM
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It helped the valuation but as just like SpaceX hallucinations about the space data centres. Doesn't mean its not a crappy low end model itself. Btw is Twitter even making any money?