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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by toephu2 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:24PM (#48558700)
Why are you comparing it to building expensive modern hospitals? Why don't you compare every other tech acquisition to that? because that's not a relevant comparison, and building expensive modern hospitals has nothing to do with the goal of for-profit corporations.

SpaceX has 3 major businesses: Space, Starlink, and AI.

This acquisition helps with the 3rd one.

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by hadlock on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:31PM (#48558781)
This is the same straw man argument of "country Z has N homeless/unhoused people, why are they building a space/military/education widget for $Y price, when they haven't found homes for N unhoused people yet?"
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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by tootie on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:57PM (#48561069)
Except businesses tend be focused on core competencies and not sprawling in a lot of unrelated directions.
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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by grokcodec on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:32PM (#48558800)
yes, whataboutism at its finest
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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by grokcodec on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:31PM (#48558776)
They compared the acquisition to hospitals because "think of the children!"
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