Your AI provider can change the deal on you. Here's the 5-prompt audit I run to stay ready.

The article discusses the growing trend of AI providers controlling the ecosystem, highlighting how companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are making strategic bets on hardware, product, distribution, and context. It emphasizes the importance of provider independence, as AI model access can change abruptly, while accumulated working context is harder to replace. The author outlines their personal strategy for managing over $600 monthly on AI plans, including what they keep outside of any single provider and a rigorous test to ensure project portability.

• OpenAI models will stop working directly in Cursor on November 12 due to OpenAI’s decision following SpaceX’s acquisition.
• Companies are making significant investments in who controls the AI system, including hardware, product, distribution, and working context.
• The author spends over $600 per month on three high-end AI plans and outlines criteria for evaluating these plans.
• Provider independence is crucial, as accumulated working context is more valuable and harder to replace than the AI model itself.
• A 30-minute test is proposed to determine if an AI project can be moved to another provider.
• Key companies’ strategies include OpenAI aiming to own more of the AI system, NVIDIA selling essential machinery, and Anthropic diversifying bets across competing companies.
• The ‘part you can’t export’ is the accumulated working context, not the replaceable AI model.
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