OpenAI told Cursor in late August that it will stop serving GPT models through the editor on 12 November, citing a change-of-ownership clause triggered by SpaceX’s acquisition of the company. Two hosts work through why that makes the model picker in a coding tool a supply contract between two companies a developer never dealt with, not a preference — and why a personal API key buys back chat models but not the one running on every keystroke.
They also weigh the article’s own complication: OpenAI models are a small share of Cursor’s traffic, Anthropic has pledged continued support, and developers appear to migrate between vendors quickly — numbers that cut against the headline without changing the underlying architecture the piece is arguing about.