July 29, 2026

The AI coding fight just moved from the model to the harness

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The most expensive part of AI coding is no longer the model. It is the software wrapped around it, and enterprises have started to notice. The immediate fight is over price. Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX has agreed to buy for $60bn, moved most cu...