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OpenAI says it will cut off Cursor's direct access to its models on 12 November 2026, after Elon Musk's SpaceX bought Cursor's maker. It is Cursor's paying developers, not the two companies, who take the disruption.
On 14 August, Claude Code flips new Pro, Max and Team sessions to “auto mode” — acting without a permission prompt, guarded by a classifier instead. The safety data is real. The change is opt-out, and it lands on a prompt-injection problem no one has solved.
AI coding tools are useful and here to stay. That is not the same as the tenfold productivity revolution being sold on the pricing page.
