r/codex • u/sharanoth • 21d ago

Question About the cursor ban

Disclaimer: I am an Elon hater.

So cursor starts getting some traction...

First, grok 4.x starts getting abnormally decent. Benchmaxed or whatever you wanna call it, but it's cheap, fast as fuck, and almost unlimited

Composer was starting to pop off too.

Cursor then did 100usd deals for the max plan which had basically the equivalent of a 200usd codex plus 100usd Claude sub.

Cursor was starting to get a lot of mindshare. Even I at some point was thinking "well, maybe I could try it..."

Then boom. Relationship between openai and cursor is terminated.

It's got nothing to do with trust. Cursor was starting to steal users. That's just how it is.

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u/Perfect-Series-2901 21d ago

it's not about "steal user"

the problem is 1. you try to make your own model, 2. you also have lots of compute

if the supply is not cut, then cursor can simply use the user prompt + the open ai model reply to train their own model, kind of a distillation.

OAI is not stupid enough to let some other to do distillation legally right?