.@EricJorgenson on why Elon calls engineering magic:
"He's been thinking about these problems since he was in college. As a kid, he was very influenced by sci-fi and thinking about things that are possible.
He talks about engineering as magic.
'If you build something that couldn't previously exist, that's like being a magician and who wouldn't want to be a magician?'"
Cursor Composer 2.5's is 3–18x cheaper than Opus 4.7 in Claude Code (medium reasoning), and 5–32x cheaper than GPT-5.5 in Codex (medium) based on API pricing
This low Cost per Task isn't just driven by relatively low token pricing, it's also driven by low relatively low token usage compared to other leading models. @cursor_ai Composer 2.5 only used 1.6M token to complete our Coding Agent Index benchmarks, while other models used up to 5.7M.
This lower token usage also contributes to a low Time per Task. Across the Coding Agent Index configurations shown, average Time per Task was ~12 minutes. Composer 2.5 completed tasks in ~9 minutes on average, making it ~1.3x faster than average, while Composer 2.5 Fast completed tasks in ~7 minutes, making it ~1.8x faster than the average across agents.
Link to full benchmark results below
Elon Musk: "I'm obviously a big fan of Nikola Tesla, since we named the company after him. But I also like Edison. Some people don’t like Edison, but I think he did some pretty impressive stuff. General Electric is basically Edison's company. I certainly admire great scientists and engineers… but I like anyone - Ben Franklin, Shakespeare, Newton, Einstein."
Elon Musk: America is the central pole holding up Western civilization. If that pole fails, nothing else matters. “If America is not strong, if the West is not strong, then nothing else matters. The companies that I run don’t matter. America is the central pole holding up the tent that is Western civilization. If that pole fails, nothing else matters.”
Elon Musk: "Probably the biggest myth that exists right now is this overpopulation myth, when in fact we have a population collapse problem."
"I think that's the biggest risk to civilization right now. We've got to get rid of this nonsense."