Stripe-OpenRouter deal highlights vendor lock-in risks for Agent stacks
amu4biz · reddit · 2026-08-17
Discussing the rumors of Stripe acquiring OpenRouter, the author highlights the risks of vendor lock-in in Agent stacks. He advocates for keeping workflows in portable formats and treating providers as configuration. He cites Aeon's design where skills are Markdown files run across different agent CLIs via an adapter, ensuring that a provider change only requires a config update, not a rewrite.
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