> It’s weird that people don’t seem to get this. LLMs are the most easily switched-out technology I’ve ever used as an engineer. The input is literally just free-form text.

It depends, if you're automating business processes (honestly probably where the money is), then you'll need a really comprehensive set of evals and moniotoring to ensure stuff doesn't break if/when you change providers.

If you have none of that, then switching will be very expensive (but it was ever thus).

Yeah, it's the absolutely weirdest thing about all of this. People keep telling me I need to up my AI game yet no matter how advanced the tools get I'm still typing stuff into a text box. My skill is typing English. I was already pretty good at that.