Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by dmarcos on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:21PM (#47372303)

Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by sigmarule on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:22PM (#47372655)

I believe the claim is that the demand side did not change, the supply side did, as in sales != demand.

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by dmarcos on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:12PM (#47372940)

Just quoting the above

“An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy”

So people spent 60k on a cybertruck that they didn’t want? Is that the claim?

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by pas on Saturday March 14, 2026 @09:04AM (#47376279)

the claim is that it moved sales forward in time, but it'll have a corresponding dip in sales later, whereas a good sales campaign increases total volume (virtually no dip, brings in new customers, etc)

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