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by ankit219 457 days ago
I have seen this analogy before, and (hence the question). Apologies if it's rude. By my understanding, while the tools are important, most of the apps hit escape velocity as the underlying models became good enough. You had cursor doing decently well until Claude Sonnet 3.5 came along, and then it took off. As did windsurf. Perplexity and Genspark became 10x more effective with o3-mini and deepseek r1. Plus the switching costs are so low that people switch to apps with the most advanced model.(and ui is very similar to other app) Do you think there is space for apps which can keep improving without improvements to underlying models?