Comment by dgellow
6 days ago
The cost is a problem, but IMHO more important is delegating so much of your internal knowledge, thinking, and systems to a 3rd party.
We are very close to the point where if Claude and ChatGPT APIs are down, companies cannot function. How is that introduced so quickly into so many critical places without taking that specific fact in consideration? What is the plan for all those companies whose workflows now depend heavily on a remote LLM whenever the services get cut? What if your company account gets banned?
In some ways it is worth than depending on a company for hosting, because even your debugging tools are based on AI. MCP is great to go through datadog, sentry, until your agent or the MCP server are down and you don't know how to look for the issue yourself because you do not actually understand how your systems work.
> We are very close to the point where if Claude and ChatGPT APIs are down, companies cannot function.
Contrast with Gmail/Gsuite/Outlook365/QuickbooksOnline/etc are down, though.
What you cite here isn't a direct attack on AI but on centralized service provision in general. Unfortunately that battle has been lost for decades, now.
None of those are doing the actual development. Here we are talking about a technology people delegate judgement, technical expertise to. It’s way, way deeper of an integration than a standard saas
Those sound like problems for another quarter. The people making the decisions ride the AI hype wave, and if in the worst case the company tanks one day, they take their severance package and leave.
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