Tailscale's Aperture: Using Tailnet Identity to Break AI Vendor Lock-In
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-10-11
Remy Guercio of Tailscale spoke at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 on escaping AI tool lock-in now that unlimited budgets are over.
- He splits an internal AI deployment into four layers — models, data connectors (MCP/CLIs/APIs), interface, sandbox — and argues an AI gateway keeps them swappable
- Aperture uses tailnet identity instead of shared API keys, handling auth for Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex in one place
- Works as both LLM and MCP gateway, with per-model budgets (unlimited for cheap models, tight for frontier ones) and logs to diagnose what agents did — answering finance's ROI questions
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