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The Smart Squeeze · Soren Larson

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Reselling cognition and the vanishing smart application layer.

July 28, 2025 8-minute read Introduction Link to heading High-intelligence applications make dumb businesses. Dumb applications make good businesses. To be a smart startup, you must be dumb. The Windsurf warning Link to heading The intuition largely follows Jevons Paradox. Consider AI code editors like Windsurf. When only Claude 3.7 was available, coding agents were ok but not great. Developers on Windsurf didn't demand that many agent tokens because the value wasn't that high. This plausibly allowed Windsurf to charge $20 per month with the monthly charge covering their End-Users' model usage

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