On "Protecting Your Work as AI Models Rapidly Come and Go"

The real risk isn't that models vanish—it's that marketers are building workflows around the assumption they won't, then act shocked when a pricing change or deprecation forces a rewrite. You need to treat every AI integration like it has an expiration date: abstract your dependencies, test exit strategies before you need them, and resist the siren song of proprietary features that save you three weeks today but lock you into a vendor's roadmap. The discipline to stay portable matters more than the feature du jour. Anyone who's been burned by API changes before already knows this; everyone else will learn it the expensive way.