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Users perceiving the products as largely interchangeable and quickly DDoS'ing the other providers when one is down. So much for the possibility of a moat.


This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.


Interesting, I had not heard of this theory.


The Sea Peoples were only a part of the reason, the other reasons included climate change, volcanic eruptions, disease etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse


Can anyone recommended any books?


The historian Brett Devreaux did a good summary article earlier this year:

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-ag...


1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline is great and is exactly on this topic.


I read that book earlier this year and really enjoyed reading it. The audiobook was also spoken by the author.


Also from Cline: After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (2024), ISBN 978-0691192130


For a TLDR https://youtu.be/aq4G-7v-_xI?si=7yNv6FKuGfqbz_rv is generally beloved


I have a feeling this is part of it, especially when you consider how many services let you use any of many available AI providers.


Except that nobody has a grok subscription so that makes zero sense.


Agree with the sentiment - but some companies like mine bought into cursor, and post acquisition, grok is relatively cheap via cursor


I know you meant this as a joke, but enough people might be using a routing service like openrouter.ai


Nobody is swapping out Claude for Grok, bro.

Nobody.


I did, at least until Fable 5.1. Grok’s models are excellent, amazing price-performance and speed too.


All you have to worry about is whether or not it’ll output kiddie porn or racist vitriol


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Do you have any evidence for this claim, or are you just making it up?


Yes, I have carefully composed a twenty page report, mostly quantitative, and then I condensed it into this short comment.




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