AI Providers’ Hidden Session State Raises Lock-In Concerns
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in. The Session You Cannot Take With You Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 From: Earendil Engineering < rfc@earendil.com > To: You Subject: The Session You Cannot Take With You The original promise of an inference API was wonderfully simple: send some input, receive…
A post of ours on vendor lock in and LLMs. We don't like the growing trend of AI companies quietly hiding your data while stripping away your control. We think that's bad for users and bad for the ecosystem. Here's are our thoughts: https://t.co/pM4fBX0Z1T
If Ant and OpenAI keep at this, this is going to be the thing that hands Microsoft a major advantage.
A post of ours on vendor lock in and LLMs. We don't like the growing trend of AI companies quietly hiding your data while stripping away your control. We think that's bad for users and bad for the ecosystem. Here's are our thoughts: https://t.co/pM4fBX0Z1T
RT @mitsuhiko: A post of ours on vendor lock in and LLMs. We don't like the growing trend of AI companies quietly hiding your data while st…
recommended reading. i agree with this message. internalize it.
A post of ours on vendor lock in and LLMs. We don't like the growing trend of AI companies quietly hiding your data while stripping away your control. We think that's bad for users and bad for the ecosystem. Here's are our thoughts: https://t.co/pM4fBX0Z1T
RT @hichaelmart: 100% this and I'd add that without introspection it's really hard to fine-tune your agents setup. AGENTS.md, skills, etc.…
extremely aligned
A post of ours on vendor lock in and LLMs. We don't like the growing trend of AI companies quietly hiding your data while stripping away your control. We think that's bad for users and bad for the ecosystem. Here's are our thoughts: https://t.co/pM4fBX0Z1T
Original title: The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
Samuel Times preserves the original link so every selection remains auditable.