Same models, same interface patterns, same launch videos. Is the sameness a phase, or where things settle?
Three forces push toward sameness: shared models, shared interface conventions (the chat box), and investors pattern-matching on what already worked. Nature has a word for different lineages arriving at the same shape: convergent evolution. It usually means the environment is doing most of the design.
The Convergence Test is an attempt to measure this instead of asserting it.
When factories electrified, every one of them got the same current from the same grid. For decades productivity barely moved. The gains came only when owners stopped swapping a big motor for…
everyone got the same socket
Ask three well-run companies to use the same frontier model to answer "what should our product strategy be?" and you get three versions of one memo. Nobody did anything wrong. The inputs wer…
same model, same prompt, same pitch deck
my bet: H is the interesting one