Some things never change

The browser wars did end. Chrome and Safari took it (66.7% and 17.9%), and Firefox is hovering around 2%. Edge technically exists, but it’s a Chrome reskin — like the twenty other Chromium variants nobody asked for. Two engines that matter, a long tail that doesn’t.

The AI race is shaping up the same way. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT slugging it out for the same users and the same default-tool slot. The faces have changed, the shape hasn’t.

I asked Gemini to remix the classic. Copilot probably deserves the corner spot more — though that’s a bit unfair, given Copilot is ChatGPT in a trench coat. GPT-5.5 itself is genuinely excellent; the glue-jar callback was just too tempting to pass up.

If history rhymes, we already know how this ends: two or three winners, a long tail, and someone in the corner still chewing on training data.