[muzani]

Earlier on, they were just wrappers. The models are like an engine, and everyone puts them in a cardboard box and calls it a car.

But we're seeing companies like Cursor which pay a lot of attention to how the models interact with everything. They're not just prompting the AI, they index files, they search and mimic styles. You can @ a certain file to use it as a reference. The composer is autonomous, even extracts commands from the AI to run, or extracts only the code needed. And it double checks that what it's writing is true. There's a whole system in there, it represents more like a modern car with proper driveshaft, gears, pedals and stuff. Copilot still feels like a box on four wheels attached to an engine.

Perplexity was a wrapper earlier on and arguably it might still be. But they've used AI more effectively than Google to figure out what a person is actually trying to search for, and suggest those things.

I think most of these companies will have minimal value added at the start and slowly start to refine it. It's hard to say what percentage.

[scarface_74]

Perplexity as a search engine really sucks compared to paid ChatGPT with built in web search.

The Perplexity UI feels like something from the early 2000s