AI vendor lock-in bites back(theregister.com)
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AI vendor lock-in bites back
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/
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Umm, are these guys sending requests at a public inference endpoint or are they doing more sophisticated work like training etc?
Lock in is pretty easy these days. Just a dummy example, Claude models are trained on their `str_replace_based_edit_tool` edit tool[1] which is very different from OpenAI's `apply_patch` tool[2].
1. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...
2. https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-apply-pa...
1. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...
2. https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/tools-apply-pa...
- it is not going to be pretty when they 5x their prices or degrade their models in some way