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Comment by perching_aix

9 hours ago

To quote - what I found to be - an absolute zinger from another trending thread on here just 6 hours ago:

> Typical users run software written by atypical users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084936

This extends to everything. Anthropic has a few thousand engineers, but millions of (also engineer) users. Entire business can be built on niches that are at most a few week pet project for a team there, that can inevitably and significantly outperform them, despite being the people behind the thing.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who jumped into this whole agentic stuff, built some tooling to make things comfy, only to see that tooling all be increasingly introduced as prim and proper features in the various harnesses weeks later.

Totally. Ralph wiggum was added to every big shop's stdlib (harness?) just a couple weeks after it dropped. That simple iterative workflow basically underpins all of the notable/novel achievements of agentic coding or whatever.

I'm sure many more examples in the "official marketplaces" for mcp/skills/what have you