Hot take: products built on LLM APIs aren't AI-native, just reselling someone else's loop
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-16
A widely shared take by fkasummer argues that if your product's intelligence relies on calling an LLM API, you're not AI-native — you're a reseller of the model's perception-action loop, with no deep proprietary moat since your token supplier is your biggest competitor and can replicate your features at will.
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