I've seen so many people who absolutely hate AI, and want AI companies to fail, but then 2 seconds later, open up the coding tool made by frontier labs and willingly hand them money.
Just recently convinced one of them to move away from the frontier lab lock-in to OpenCode and switch between models. This directly allows them to be ready to switch to open source when the time is right.
Why don't more people do this? And shouldn't company leadership also account for this and be ready for those price hikes?
To be clear, I like AI, and use it all the time, but I use it in a way that allows me to easily switch models and not get locked-in.
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