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They can, of course, but why would they waste time on it? They are buying a tool, talent, and a heap of paying enterprise customers. This is a steal.

According to the various CEO's saying AI give 100x speedup they could just have one dev whip it up in a weekend no?

And they're probably buying it with equity, not cash.

they have an infinite war chest and building windsurf/cursor isn't the hard part, building a brand and sales environment around it is. why risk failing the execution and losing focus when you can just buy one with momentum?

it's also a bit of multiple arbitrage in terms of what seriously addressing the developer market means for their valuation, they likely recoup the 3b instantly.

Why didn't they just use ChatGPT to build it? Weird.

Sometimes it almost seems like the idea that LLMs are capable of instantly creating real, maintainable software is vastly overblown to inflate valuations...

Somebody didnt read their daily PR article about how CEOs are replacing entire teams with a few "rockstars vibe coding with AI"

it would be only a few millions if they used cursor and Claude but their ego prevented it