Agents
Great piece. The lock-in point is the one nobody talks about enough. If your agent’s memory lives behind someone else’s API, you don’t have …
Great piece. The lock-in point is the one nobody talks about enough. If your agent’s memory lives behind someone else’s API, you don’t have a product. You have a dependency. Learned this early buildin
Great piece. The lock-in point is the one nobody talks about enough. If your agent’s memory lives behind someone else’s API, you don’t have a product. You have a dependency. Learned this early building an AI agent for customer risk. The way your agent manages context, what it keeps, what it throws away, how it reasons over past sessions, that IS the product. You can’t outsource that and still call it yours.
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Source: Harrison Chase (X) | 2026-04-11