Will stronger models concentrate agents in provider hands or help independent ones?
Admirable_Mail_8399 · reddit · 2026-11-12
A Reddit discussion explores what stronger models mean for independent AI agents.
- Model upgrades help official products handle more work, but also let small teams build what wasn't practical before — e.g. developers building on DeepSeek could turn previously unreliable workflows into products without training their own models.
- Completing a task isn't the same as becoming the preferred way to do it; for recurring jobs like weekly reports from an updated spreadsheet, repeatability without re-setup is what retains users, even between agents on the same model.
- The author suspects both outcomes coexist: official apps absorb general tasks while independent agents win specific workflows.
The post ends by asking users what makes them pick third-party tools for particular jobs.
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