IMO, they are buying business just to put them down later to avoid potential competition. The recipe is not new, it has been practiced by Google/Microsoft for many years.

▲ ainch 8 hours ago | parent [-]

What competition was OpenAI likely to face from a team working on fast Python tooling?

▲ huqedato 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have no idea but for sure they did their homework before making this step. I suppose they're grabbing these business just to stay ahead, in order to prevent the competitors to buy those instead.

	▲	butlike 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sitting on cash as a company also looks bad to investors

▲ cozzyd 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

   $ uv install claude-agent-sdk 
   I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that