Your AI provider can change the deal on you. Here's the 5-prompt audit I run to stay ready.
My $600-plus AI setup, what I keep outside every provider, and the test each expensive plan has to pass.
TL;DR
- OpenAI models will stop working directly in Cursor on November 12 due to OpenAI's decision following SpaceX's acquisition.
- Companies are making significant investments in who controls the AI system, including hardware, product, distribution, and working context.
- The author spends over $600 per month on three high-end AI plans and outlines criteria for evaluating these plans.
- Provider independence is crucial, as accumulated working context is more valuable and harder to replace than the AI model itself.
- A 30-minute test is proposed to determine if an AI project can be moved to another provider.
- Key companies' strategies include OpenAI aiming to own more of the AI system, NVIDIA selling essential machinery, and Anthropic diversifying bets across competing companies.
- The 'part you can't export' is the accumulated working context, not the replaceable AI model.