> The more likely and far more mundane outcome isn’t that LLM providers actively tip the scales, but rather that they just entrench existing winners
100%. This isn't that different from the previous status quo (googling how to build a web app will give me guides from digital ocean, vercel, etc about deploying the currently popular technology on their platforms)
As in all things, though, the new technology reinforces this feedback loop faster.
Fwiw, I haven't had any trouble using Claude in cursor to write svelte5 code - there are tools (cursorrules, the svelte 1-pager documentation for LLMs) that you can use to make sure it uses the tech you want. It just requires intention from the prompter and good documentation from the tooling
100%. This isn't that different from the previous status quo (googling how to build a web app will give me guides from digital ocean, vercel, etc about deploying the currently popular technology on their platforms)
As in all things, though, the new technology reinforces this feedback loop faster.
Fwiw, I haven't had any trouble using Claude in cursor to write svelte5 code - there are tools (cursorrules, the svelte 1-pager documentation for LLMs) that you can use to make sure it uses the tech you want. It just requires intention from the prompter and good documentation from the tooling