Vendor lock is gonna hurt a lot

Exactly. The corporate API billing model (charging per input/output token) makes running recursive developer agent loops practically unsustainable for complex codebases.

The vendor lock-in on enterprise API tiers is going to be a massive budget black hole.

I’ve been experimenting with a different architectural approach: using a local proxy desktop client that hooks into the public web chat session for logic reasoning, while keeping the schema parsing, execution layer, and file operations entirely local on the hard drive. You can let the agent run in loops, debug files, and query local DBs for hours, and it doesn’t cost a single cent in API tokens.

If we don’t decouple the AI’s reasoning layer from the API key token billing model, agentic coding is going to remain a luxury that only massive corporations can afford.