Job switching gets costlier: you can't take your heavily customized AI with you
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-05
A short but sharp observation: as professionals depend on heavily customized AI assistants (custom context, configs, workflows), the productivity cost of switching jobs will rise sharply — you can't take that AI with you. A new variable in the AI-era relationship between organizations and individuals.
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