[hbarka]

Vendor lock-in is real and it’s scary. You are helpless to the constant price increases and each passing renewal you get deeper and deeper into the lock-in. Here’s to the day when someone clever with AI can disintermediate this situation. You don’t have to vibecode your own CRM but imagine a deterministic harness that lets you lego-block CRM functions like lead management, opportunity tracking, contact list, campaigns. There shouldn’t be a moat anymore.

[crisnoble]

Moving the vendor lock-in to the AI provider and exponentially increasing the pain of migration by locking all teams and all services in at once.

[hbarka]

Not really. Mixture of models and mixture of experts have been around. It’s easy to switch a project harness from Codex to Claude to Gemini and to open models. You’re not locked in to a model, you’re more concerned about competitive token cost.