Computer power has been increasing all the time, but that hasn't kept people from experimenting with the limited power of their time (which ultimately led to better solutions) rather than waiting for the more powerful machines.
Don't focus on the method of solving the problem until you have identified the problem and all the current solutions and avoidances.
E.g. you can build a drawing program where you can tell it in natural language to apply certain effects and make some changes. But another company might be working on a OS assistant that can help the user in any program currently running on the computer.
Or you can build a robot that can pick bolts from an assembly line, but at some point there will be a company building a cheap robot that can do anything from folding t-shirts to knitting a sweater.