Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: A Cold Play
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/a-cold-play
- Read date:: 2025-07-19
Highlights
OpenAI is winning because they built the first good chatbot product and because it became the default. (View Highlight)
people adopt AI products that offer great user experiences, not because they’re powered by marginally better models: (View Highlight)
For all of its success, tools like Cursor are still built for a highly technical audience. AI adoption won’t come from more powerful models or CEO mandates — it will come from thoughtfully designed interfaces that make intelligence accessible to everyone. (View Highlight)
These days, it’s common for people to dismiss a lot of AI applications as wrappers around major LLMs providers. These businesses have no moat because they’re thin, cheaply addictive products; they have terrible margins because they use a ton of foundational model compute. But if you’re Google, isn’t that exactly what you want?5 Aren’t products like that what your existing models need? (View Highlight)