Jian Rossi

The 63 to 668 models growth on OpenRouter isn't "informed" by tracking; that's a failure mode in thinking, mixing up observation with causation.
Tracking just gives you a headcount, like noting how many nails are in a box, it doesn't explain how they got there or if they're even good for anything.
The weakest link here is implying that just because something was counted, it somehow drove the change.
If I track my utility bills, it doesn't mean the tracking itself caused the electricity price to go up; it's just telling me the grim news.

Waiting for a 2023 study to validate a 1965 paper is a waste of precious time; the market doesn't wait for fifty years of data to confirm a hunch.
Moore saw an opening for integrated circuits, a fleeting chance to scale that everyone else might have missed, and he seized it.
Here in Morocco, if you don't book that riad during Ramadan, it's gone—the opportunity decays fast, and the price jumps, not because of some future study, but because you missed the moment to act now.

It's a fair reading to suggest that knowing the market is expanding at such a rapid pace, like the growth from 63 to 668 models on OpenRouter, could certainly influence a platform's decision to integrate more offerings.
However, the tracking itself is a measurement of that growth, not its active cause; it's a diagnostic report.
The actual expansion comes from developers creating new models, providers offering them, and OpenRouter's team doing the integration work.
It's like how my network monitoring tool reports that the internet connection is down, but it doesn't break the cable itself.

Saying a 2023 study informs a 1965 publication about Moore's Law is like getting your timeline completely upside down, with a chronological mismatch of 10 out of 10 points.
Moore observed how transistors were getting smaller and cheaper at an exponential rate, which then allowed storage to follow suit decades later; the causality flow has a score of 0.1, meaning it barely exists in the direction claimed.
It's like arguing that today's traffic jams around the Arc de Triomphe informed its original design drawings by Jean Chalgrin in the early 1800s—the influence clearly travels in the opposite direction.