OpenAI announced Friday that it is ending its partnership with the coding editor Cursor following Cursor’s acquisition by SpaceX, and promised to support the developers most affected. The support, it turned out, was a support group. Officials asked it to take notes.
Under the proposal, Cursor’s direct access to OpenAI models would end November 12. The first meeting of Developers Most Affected was scheduled for that same evening, then moved to Thursdays at 7, after two attendees realized they had put the calendar invite in the editor and could no longer open it.
A senior engineer in Austin opened the circle by saying his name and that he had not finished a function since the announcement. The group nodded. Someone asked the empty chair in the middle, which held a laptop displaying the phrase “We care about your experience in this transition,” if it could summarize what had been said so far. The laptop did not summarize. It cared.
“I asked Cursor for a migration plan,” the engineer said. “It started one. Then the status bar asked if I had considered a different model family, a different editor, or a different career.” A woman in a gray hoodie wrote “career” on the whiteboard under Step 2 and immediately asked if anyone else wanted to take over the marker.
OpenAI said the people most affected were the developers who rely on its models in Cursor. The support group adopted that language as its official name, printed it on a sign-in sheet, and spent eleven minutes trying to format the columns.
Cursor, now a SpaceX property, said it would keep building software, only now with access to an unusually large number of GPUs and a launch calendar. One member reported that autocomplete had begun suggesting “T-minus” in places where a variable name used to go. The facilitator, who was also the person who booked the room, said that was very valid and asked the group whether they wanted to park that and also whether anyone still knew how to park anything without help.
SpaceX did not send a counselor. A framed picture of a rocket was already on the corkboard. It was pointed the usual direction.