Frontier Models Are Eating Startups
tekbog · x · 2026-07-13
This is an exaggerated, darkly humorous rant: The author describes a VC who keeps funding startups, only for them to be "eaten" by frontier models. When the VC urged founders to delegate as many tasks as possible to Claude and ChatGPT, the author joked that this was essentially feeding data to frontier labs, reducing the founder to tears.
While lacking serious argumentation, the post mocks a widely accepted industry consensus: the heavier the reliance on general-purpose LLMs, the easier it is for upstream platforms to monopolize capabilities and data, continually squeezing the differentiation of startups.
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