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points by DanielHB 4 days ago | 0 comments

People are underestimating the lock-in of Claude Code and Codex. Most companies are not buying a model, they are buying the ecosystem.

But the lock-in is not _that_ big that a big co could not pull off a migration, but it would be like migrating from Teams to Slack, not like migrating away from Adobe.

[–] lisplist 4 days ago

Small nitpick, but you can use any model you want with Claude Code and Codex - doesn't have to come from Anthropic or OpenAI

[–] unrented7977 3 days ago

This is exactly how I got people at work onboarded to our local models. Everyone was comfortable with Claude or codex CLI so i gave them prebaked config files to use them with our local models. Ezpz

[–] redanddead 4 days ago

People regularly switch

[–] DanielHB 4 days ago

Companies don't switch lightly.

[–] nemo44x 4 days ago

They do when they see the cost savings and ROI. It’s the one reliable thing that makes a company switch from any tech to another one.

Looking at our AI spend today vs 1 year ago we have massive changes. Anything that can bring this under control and potentially save millions a year is being explored.

We will probably end up with a combo of open weight models for most work and frontier models for key projects. For now. Who knows what the landscape looks like in 1 year.

[–] redanddead 3 days ago

Yup. Hard to stop individual devs as well… I can plug chatgpt into claude code and vice versa or any configuration I want, there’s no lock in

[–] DanielHB 3 days ago

The lock-in is that the subscriptions plans only allow you to use their own harness.

[–] redanddead 3 days ago

That'll stop em