How to Stop Your AI Provider From Holding Your App Hostage
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The discourse around who controls AI's future got loud again this week. But while pundits debate trust and governance, I'm staring at a very concrete problem in my codebase: my entire application is hardwired to a single AI provider's API. If they change pricing tomorrow, deprecate a model, or go down for six hours (again), I'm cooked. And if you've built anything with LLM APIs in the last two years, you probably are too. Let's fix that. The Root Cause: Tight Coupling to a Single Pro