About two weeks ago, the U.S. government directed Anthropic to suspend access to its latest frontier models. This week, OpenAI was required to limit the rollout of GPT-5.6 over cybersecurity concerns.
Whether you agree with those decisions or not isn't the point.
The point is that they highlighted something many of us have quietly ignored for years.
If your software depends entirely on somebody else's API, then part of your software is no longer under your control.
Your application can be rate-limited. Features can disappear overnight. Pricing can change. Access can be restricted by policy, regulation, geography, or business decisions you have no say in.
