It's definitely possible there's a "grass is always greener" effect going on here, to be fair.

None of these tools give the impression of being well-tested software. My guess is that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic actually has the necessary density in expertise to build quality software. Google obviously can build good software _when it really wants to_ but in this space its strategy looks like "build the products the other guys are building, cut whatever corners necessary to do this absolutely as fast as possible".

So even if my initial impressions are more accurate it's quite possible Google wins long term here.