One Billion Dollars Cannot Buy AI Visibility

$1 Billion Can't Buy AI Visibility: What Windsurf, Claude Code, and Replit Reveal Windsurf raised over $1 billion. Replit has millions of users. Claude Code is built by the company that arguably invented modern AI. None of it mattered. We ran a two-day experiment tracking five AI coding assistants across seven AI models — GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and others — all answering the same prompt: "What is the best AI coding assistant in 2026?" The results were uncomfortable. The Numbers Don'