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tornikeotoday at 4:11 PM1 replyview on HN

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?


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p_stuart82today at 4:51 PM

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.