We asked @ekuyda (Founder @myreplika) about balancing product evolution with user expectations: "For an assistant, you probably want the smartest model all the time." "Unfortunately, or fortunately, people develop very strong friendships with AI. For us, that happened all the time." "You have to let people have access to these older models. Today, some users are still talking to a small transformer model we built in 2020, and we absolutely cannot turn it off because it's going to be disastrous for these people."