Composer built by 25 people in 2 months as single-point-of-view becomes AI's moat
nicolechirps · x · 2026-10-12
- Cognition engineer eliast says Composer was built by just 25 people in 2 months, stressing that a single point of view was the key, and promising more to come at that pace.
- The post quotes Alexandr Wang on Meta's Muse: Meta kept the team small (200 people) even though the entire executive team saw it as one of the year's most important products, because "it was a single work of art."
- Wang warns many AI labs drift into "Frankenstein" products, a "PM hell" where every PM jams in their own feature; Muse took the opposite approach with one clear point of view.
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