Some things never change

Firefox and Chrome fighting while Internet Explorer eats glue, mirrored below by Claude and Gemini fighting while ChatGPT eats training data

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.