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by tomasphan 71 days ago
98% uptime is not great. Our eng department is thinking about going half half with Codex but of course there’s a switching cost.
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I'm VERY curious about your case. What kind of switching costs do you guys have? I'm working at a very young startup that is still not locked into either AI provider harnesses -- what causes switching costs, just the subscription leftovers or something else?
subscription leftovers are noise. the real switching cost is the harness glue.

prompts. tool calling quirks. evals. auth. retries. all the weird failure modes your team already paid to learn.

FYI I use my Codex models with Claude code and they work pretty great. It can even pick up on existing conversations w/ Opus and then resume w/ OAI models.