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If I was making an AI code assistant, the last thing I would do is to lock it in to a particular foundation model provider.

The only possible way for this to be a successful offering is if we have just now reached a plateau of model effectiveness and all foundation models will now trend towards having almost identical performance and capabilities, with integrators choosing based on small niceties, like having a familiar SDK.



Other than the command/arguments there isn't much locking you in. It's just input/output. Swap it out for something else or simply wrap it. There's not much going on here.


"Lock i-"

At this point Claude Code is a software differentiator in the agent coding space.

I am building things related to AI code assistants - we were hacking ways to integrate Claude Code - it was the first thing we wanted to build around.

It's too early to care about lock in.

Need the best, will only build around the best.




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