Switching model providers will feel like restarting your career from scratch
manosaie · x · 2026-10-14
A pithy observation: switching model providers in the future will feel like restarting your career with none of your experience — since prompts, toolchains and accumulated context are all locked to one vendor, switching costs will keep rising.
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