A sardonic take on the AI coding assistant market, mocking the recurring claim that each new tool's 'data flywheel' creates an insurmountable competitive moat — only for a new competitor to immediately emerge and reset the cycle. The post references Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Composer 2 in quick succession to illustrate how fleeting these supposed advantages are.

they said cursors data flywheel would make them unstoppable

but then claude code came out

they said claude codes data flywheel would make them unstoppable

but then codex came out

they said codex's data flywheel would make them unstoppable

then composer 2 came out

<p>they said cursors data flywheel would make them unstoppable

but then claude code came out

they said claude codes data flywheel would make them unstoppable

but then codex came out

they said codex's data flywheel would make them unstoppable

then composer 2 came out</p>