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Rethinking Vendor Lock-In

August 27, 2026

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Vendor lock-in. The thing that's supposed to keep you stuck with one company for good.

I'm starting to feel differently about that today -- not because it vanished, but because AI just handed me a way around it I didn't have before.

Still working out how far it goes. Here's where my head's at, live.

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