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> But for API use, the models are easily substituted, so market share is fleeting. The LLM interface being unstructured plain text makes it simpler to upgrade to a smarter model than than it used to be to swap a library or upgrade to a new version of the JVM.

Agree that the plain text interface (which enables extremely fast user adoption) also makes the product less sticky. I wonder if this is part of the incentive to push for specialized tool calling interfaces / MCP stuff - to engineer more lock in by increasing the model specific surface area.