Sherwin Wu: preference

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…So what would be the key takeaway for folks building on say the API or just building agents and having to build a little bit of this around for now, is it just, yeah, what would be the advice? My general advice, and I've been giving this to people for a while and I think it's still true today is make sure you're building for where the models are going and not where they are today. It's clearly a moving target. And I think a lot of the companies that I've seen, startups that I've seen really, really do well is they build a product for an ideal type of capability that is like maybe 80% of the way there today. And they end up having a product that kind of works, but is just almost there. But then as the models get better, suddenly it might click and then their product now is incredible because it works like maybe with like o3, at some point it suddenly works with 5.1, 5.2, suddenly it unlocks it, but they're building these products with the model capability improvements in mind. And with that, you end up creating an experience that's way better than if you had assumed that it's static in the first place. And so that'd be my general advice, which is build for where the models are going and not where they are today. You end up building a better product. You may need to wait a little bit, but the models are getting so much better so quickly, you often don't need to wait that long. So to follow that thread, like in the next 6 to 12 months, where is the API heading? Where's the platform heading? Where are the models heading? As much as you can share, I know there's a lot of secrets here, that maybe you're most excited about, or you think that people should start to prepare for and however much you can share?…

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