'If your product is a UI on OpenAI or Anthropic, they're coming for you' — Cursor as cautionary tale
weswinder · x · 2026-11-09
Developer weswinder warns that products whose entire value is a nice UI on top of OpenAI or Anthropic models will eventually be crushed by their upstream providers. Cursor is his cautionary tale: it owned the dev market until Claude Code shipped. The only defenses, he argues, are building a workflow the labs can't see or owning a model yourself.
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