We know exactly how many keys we own and which doors they open.
Nobody can say how many of the pages that introduce them are pages they could edit today.
Search your own name. Count what you own.
The first page of results is a page about you, and most of it was written by somebody else. Here is what counts, and what only looks like it does.
Ten years are going to pass either way. The only variable is whether they stack into one thing or reset into ten first months.
First months are the most exciting and the least valuable part of any of them.
@EthanSDE@kunchenguid I ended up there too. Fixed tiers picked before the run, my cheapest one is DeepSeek, Qwen and Mistral, nothing guessing mid-task.
Your shortlist was assembled by somebody with no stake in the outcome, out of pages you have never read, and finished before anybody thought to look you up.
Wrote down what actually happens before anybody types a company name: five searches, in the order a buyer runs them, each one answered on a page the company doesn't own.
Including the one where the answer is an assistant, not a list.