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If Anthropic starts entering the engineering space, OpenAI and others may follow. The key question is: why would your tool or harness perform better than the f
by little_cad 5mo ago
If Anthropic starts entering the engineering space, OpenAI and others may follow.
The key question is: why would your tool or harness perform better than the frontier model providers’ own native tools, such as Claude for Creative Work, if your product is only a thin layer on top of their model or their agentic system?
Similarly, why would your tool work better than a CAD company’s own agentic tool? For example, it would not be very difficult for PTC to add an Onshape co-pilot that calls the Claude Agent SDK, while PTC can also build more powerful internal tools/MCP servers for their own use without exposing them to external API users.
- idank 5mo agoThe recipe for these model wrapper companies is 1. enter a space before the big ones do, 2. provide a nice enough wrapper that gets you customers, 3. survive until a bigger fish comes and asks you to join them (or eat you and you die). Just look at Cursor who is probably the best example you can find. They might have a good outcome in the end, but most get eaten.
- little_cad 5mo agoyes, this is the common recipe. Cursor failed on the text-to-cad copilot first and then pivot to coding copilot and got succeeded there.