Models are becoming interchangeable.
But AI providers are quietly bundling the model, your memory, your relationships and your identity into one subscription.
The intelligence should be replaceable.
You shouldn’t be.
This is definitely the approach engineering teams in >=2026 need to take. Think of mitigations, QA, benchmarks rather than line per line PR reviews..
At this stage, agents are able to complete full epics, rather than a single PR!
Be careful with having agents "adjusting" your
Software engineering needs to accept something that complex biological systems make obvious:
understanding the parts doesn't mean you can predict the behavior of the whole. Interactions create side effects, unexpected outcomes, and emergent behavior.
Software has already been
