A capability jump pushed his team from autocomplete to agents

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1. 11:24

   where there's just one company. There was a leaked investor letter that said they believe the singularity started on January 1st, 2026. What do you think has fundamentally changed this year about sort of this like takeoff period we're if if you agree with that well without coming on the commenting on the letter i'm not asking you to comment on the letter that's uh i think something Because you see the data in like a really unique way.

2. 12:03

   You're actually seeing like how people are using these models. What are they using it for? Which models? So if you go to our rankings page, there's a little button that says linear versus log on our tokens. And if you click on log to switch it to log mode, you'll see that it was growing until January 1st. And then the slope dramatically picks up and has been, you know, consistently higher than it was up until January 7th or something like that.

3. 12:37

   There really was a, like, change of growth, like, acceleration that happened around January 1st. And so in terms of timing. New Year's resolutions. People were like, use more AI. Yeah. Well, I remember, like, after New Year's or around New Year's, I was just like, oh, my God, like, I need to, like, generate some papers because I can actually brainstorm with the models now. And it's, like, kind of effective.

4. 13:11

   Like, there's some, like, good ideas coming out of Opus. And the coding was, like, so much better. I felt like we could refactor code and actually, like, count on it to work most of the time. And that was always my personal eval with models before, is like, hey, can I refactor this part of our code base in a way that makes sense structurally and have it still work? And suddenly that was working. So it was pretty incredible.

5. 13:45

   And I think that it showed that we have to change the way we work. And so I told the whole company, hey, something insane has happened. We have to change the way we work. And if you're not using agents most of the time, if you're using autocomplete, it's time to switch. No more autocomplete. We have to leverage cloud agents, but local agents are fine too. and um and we have to do a we have to better understand our velocity from a you know we have to like give ourselves more leverage here it's it's out there and the tooling is just primitive um and you know and so we started you know we like have launched agent tools we launched ori harness which helps people use any agent with open router really easily. Any agent harness. We started a lot of we started going very deep in tools and helping developers

6. 14:57

   like get access to like server tools and inference agnostic or inference adjacent infrastructure that, like, does make your end outcome a lot better with better grounding or better relevance to your org. And, like, you know, that... So in many, many ways, it changed the company. When the acquisition was announced on X,