{"slug": "ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it", "title": "Ask HN: If you dislike AI, why don't you prove it?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks why people who dislike AI continue to pay frontier labs for coding tools, and suggests using OpenCode to switch between models and avoid lock-in, enabling a future transition to open source. The user advocates for model-agnostic usage to prepare for price hikes and reduce dependency on specific vendors.", "body_md": "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.\n\nJust 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.\n\nWhy don't more people do this? And shouldn't company leadership also account for this and be ready for those price hikes?\n\nTo 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.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401293](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401293)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401293", "published_at": "2026-08-22 16:28:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-22 16:43:51.587466+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenCode", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-if-you-dislike-ai-why-don-t-you-prove-it.jsonld"}}