[vsareto]

>The GPTs/GPT Agents and Assistants demos in particular showed that they are a black box within a black box within a black box that you can't port anywhere else.

This just rings hollow to me. We lost the fights for database portability, cloud portability, payments/billing portability, and other individual SaaS lock-in. I don't see why it'll be different this time around.

[kortilla]

> We lost the fights for database portability, cloud portability, payments/billing portability, and other individual SaaS lock-in.

No we didn’t. There are viable on-prem alternatives or cross cloud alternatives for everything popular on the cloud.

Many companies did choose to hand their destiny over to cloud providers but lots didn’t.