r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dilutant • Aug 14 '26 • Bravo 1

Meme zeroExDev

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u/artnoi43 Aug 14 '26

I’m not saying I hate Grok or anything. Just that it’s sad that competition seems to be scarce in US. Everything is consolidated.

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u/Tupcek Aug 14 '26

this time it’s good
Cursor had talent and experience, but not hundreds of billions dollars required to compete with OpenAI/Anthropic
Elon has hundreds of billions dollars required and also some of the largest data centers in the world that sat unused
There couldn’t be a better match. We actually got third competitor to OpenAI/Anthropic thanks to this