I mean, we just need to reach L2 Lagrange point. It is definitely easier than going for Mars. Right?

Exactly. CUDA is huge moat and all competitors must be adopting SOFTWARE first approach similar to what tinycorp is trying to do. Find one single thing that makes CUDA bad to use and TRIPLE DOWN on that.

History shows that software companies with large chunk of their platform being Free to Use mainly survive thanks to Ads.

It goes well beyond free to use models unfortunately.

I don't know. It seems like Cursor does the trick for me. I wrote 4k+ LoC Vulkan API heavy video decoding for Linux ARM64. They key thing was not to YOLO but specify context carefully up to tiny details.