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👀 “A finance product built around "help the CFO close the books faster" and a finance product built around "make the month-end close not require a human" are not the same product. They are not the same company. You cannot usually get from the first to the second by iterating. You have to start with the second in mind.”
@rohanpaul_ai Broadly agree — but the shift won’t fully happen until LLM behavior is more predictable.
If the agent layer remains non-deterministic, enterprises will still keep critical business logic in deterministic systems.
Perplexity is a $20 billion company that built zero AI models.
Their product sits on top of 19 models made by other companies. Claude for reasoning. Gemini for research. GPT-5.4 for long context. Grok for lightweight tasks. Nano Banana for images. Veo 3.1 for video.
You write one prompt. Computer picks the best model combo for the job, spawns sub-agents in parallel, and runs the whole thing in a cloud sandbox while your laptop is closed.
400+ app connectors. Gmail, GitHub, Snowflake, Salesforce, Ahrefs, Shopify. Read and write access. One prompt can scrape your competitors, pull live financials from FactSet, query your data warehouse in plain English, and push a finished report to Google Slides. No API keys. No terminal.
The enterprise usage data tells you where this is heading. In January 2025, 90% of enterprise tasks on Perplexity ran on two models. By December, no single model held more than 25% of usage. A new frontier model launched every 17.5 days in 2025. Each one brought different strengths. The era of picking one model is ending.
Perplexity built none of the intelligence. They built the routing layer that makes the intelligence usable. Stripe didn't build the banks. Google didn't build the websites. The value is in making complexity disappear.
Four of the Mag Seven already use Perplexity's search API in production. Every model provider is now building orchestration in-house. The question is whether the routing layer stays independent or gets absorbed.
I wrote the complete guide to using Computer without wasting credits. 6 use cases, the prompt spec that controls cost, honest limitations.
https://t.co/k5FcHRJXw6
In a powerful display of nature’s raw instinct, a lion pulls a warthog from its burrow in a desperate battle for survival. This dramatic moment captures the wild’s unforgiving balance, where predator and prey play out the timeless cycle of life.
I can't stop thinking about this poem...
The final two lines bear repeating:
And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
How often have you been convinced that your joy, contentment, and fulfillment were on the other side of some extraordinary achievement?
• I'll be content when I get that promotion.
• I'll be fulfilled when I make director.
• I'll be joyful when I find a partner.
This "when, then" psychology traps our happiness in a conditional statement:
You get to be happy when you achieve that thing.
In a culture that obsesses over the extraordinary, there's much to be gained through simply shifting your focus to celebrate the ordinary.
How can you make the ordinary come alive today?
Every single thing you do today is something your 90-year-old self will wish they could go back and do.
That simple walk. That feeling of satisfaction when you figure out a tricky problem. That smile from a friend. That laugh from your child. That workout you wanted to skip. That conversation with your parents.
That ordinary moment you're tempted to ignore.
All of it.
So, the next time you find yourself wanting to skip through to the other side—to the end, the goal, the finish line:
Stop. Pause. And breathe it in.
This is it. This is real. This is life.
Make the ordinary come alive and the extraordinary will take care of itself.
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