There is zero cost to switching ai models. Paid or open source. It's one line mostly.
replyWhat about your chat history? That has some value, at least for me. But what has even more value is stable releases.
replyYou can output it as a memory using a simple prompt. You could probably re-use this prompt for any product with only slight modification. Or you could prompt the product to output an import prompt that is more tuned to its requirements.
replyThis is one of the many reasons I don't think the model companies are going to win the application space in coding.
replyThere's literally zero context lost for me in switching between model providers as a cursor user at work. For personal stuff I'll use an open source harness for the same reason.
I don't see any value in chat history. I delete all conversations at least weekly, it feels like baggage.
replyI think this is more about which model you steer your coding harness to. You can also self-host a UI in front of multiple models, then you own the chat history.
replyfor me there is zero value there.
replyCodex doesn't read Claude.md like Claude does. It's not a "one line" change to switch.
replyI have a CLAUDE.md symlinked to AGENTS.md
replyln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md
replyThere's your one line change.
That doesn't handle Claude.md in subdirectories. It does handle Claude.md and other various settings in .claude.
replyYou mean Anthropic are the only ones refusing the de-facto standard despite a long-standing issue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235
replyAnd as others have said, it's a one-line fix. "Skills" etc. are another `ln -s`