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I'm excited about what Google comes up with but only as an intellectual curiosity. In practice, I'll never use it in my apps or workflow because I simply don't trust Google and they'll pull the plug any day with short notice. If Google's brand image wasn't tarnished due to their abandoning products that users loved, I'd probably have a different opinion.

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Abstract the LLM calls into one layer, bundled with the prompt engineering for your use-case.

Et viola, your application is now free from LLM lock-in.

Well, maybe at an API and prompt level. But if Google pull ahead in this space then you may become dependent on what it alone can do functionally. Even if you can trivially switch LLM and prompt, if the others aren't able to do something equivalent (or at the same level of quality) then you're still locked in. Until now we've basically had this situation with OpenAI.

Why is vendor lock-in a concern if no other vendor offers that functionality?

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