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Re:Discovery Loop by tgma on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:29PM (#49188564)
9 figure is hardly enough when some kid sells their vscode fork to them for more, is it? Why not just boomerang and get $$$.
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Re:Discovery Loop by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:21PM (#49200379)
Did that really happen? What was the fork you are talking about?
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Re:Discovery Loop by tgma on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:14PM (#49216309)
It was a general metaphor but a reference to Windsurf. On the boomerang side, Noam Shazeer went on to do Character AI and came back via acquisition only to leave again to OpenAI.
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