Bret Taylor

Alessio Fanelli × swyx × Bret Taylor

Bret Taylor favors domain applications such as Cursor, Harvey, and Sierra over independent foundation-model or tooling startups, as frontier pretraining probably consolidates around unreasonably large capex budgets and tools broadly accrue toward open source.Sierra’s negotiated outcome pricing shifts software economics beyond seats and usage, while cheaper, faster reasoning could expand agent adoption; the unresolved risk is controlling behavior that no prompt can completely specify.