Provider lock-in is set the day you integrate, not the day you decide to switch. Why a boundary between your app and the model provider is an infrastructure decision.
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Matt Ober
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Oberhahn
CTO and co-founder of Oberhahn. Infrastructure engineer who has built platforms at petabyte scale — now building the system that makes AI observable, attributable, and manageable.
Articles by Matt Ober
Your APM dashboard says everything is fine. Meanwhile AI agents quietly burn budget in loops nobody is watching. APM was built for bounded systems.
The same teams that solved distributed tracing in microservices are making the wrong diagnosis with AI spend. The fix is not the keys. It is the instrumentation layer.