The company I work for has a plan B to switch to alternative, self-hosted models if providers pull off strange moves, such as drastic pricing changes. We have already switched from one provider to another once, and we do not want to get burned again. We do not reverse engineer, just regular development.
Until Kevin quits and you need to modify his work
Right, because admin is some obscure work in 2026 and no one knows how to do it.
How do you correlate owning an LLM implementation and "admin"?
Owning implementation = self-hosting one?
No I mean being responsible for the implementation and continued good functioning of something Kevin was responsible for before he quit. So uh self-hosting in a corporate context sure
But self-hosting is admin work, precisely. And everything was self-hosted or self-managed pre-cloud era. This is no different.