This week half my feed is people switching AI models. A new one drops, the old one gets throttled, everyone re-evaluates their setup. It happens every few weeks now.
Watch those threads long enough and you notice the real complaint underneath. It is not the model. It is that switching costs you everything you had built up: your rules, your context, what the last agent figured out. All of it lived inside one tool, and now you are rebuilding it somewhere else.
That is not a model problem. It is a workspace problem.
Your setup is not a workspace
Think about what an AI coding setup actually is today. You have a chat window. You have your codebase. Maybe a terminal, maybe an IDE extension. And that is it. Nothing sits above them holding the work together.
