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Just another form of vendor lock-in. If your business model is mostly/entirely dependent on an external party, that should be a well understood risk.
I am responsible for gathering information on AI to determine whether we should use it for our next project. The ask was to use it for a critical process task. Immediately in my head I was like "no, we are not using AI at all", but I obviously need quantifiable data. This is just another thing to add to my list of why using AI for core processes is one of the stupidest things you could ever do.
The only people winning are selling shovels
Dude, it's 2026. We don't sell shovels, we sell shovel subscriptions.
Tiered shovel subscriptions.
Or rather the right to use shovels under ToS that can be changed on a whim.
And you can sell at least one shovel to somebody digging themselves into a hole