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OpenAI and Anthropic's next lock-in play: Databases of coding intent
Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic, sees the top AI frontier labs creating databases of coding intent.
TL;DR
- AI frontier labs are prioritizing profit margins and customer lock-in over just model quality.
- Discounts on coding tools like Claude Code and Codex aim to increase market share and usage.
- A future strategy may involve storing the complete interaction history between users and AI models when generating code.
- These stored interactions would form databases of coding intent, providing richer understanding of codebases.
- This could effectively lock customers into specific AI providers as the data would be difficult to export.