"Others encourage strategies to reduce proprietary AI dependency. “Beware of vendor lock-in, and use abstraction layers where possible,” Manik Surtani, CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), tells LeadDev.
Instead of Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex, he recommends Goose, an open-source AI agent from AAIF. “Goose gives you flexibility of model, to help you navigate pricing changes, pivots and deprecation, government bans,” he says, noting it can run multiple models concurrently.
Another benefit to using an open-source agent is you get a vendor-neutral harness. “Goose isn’t incentivized to be token-verbose, which you can’t say about some proprietary agent harnesses,” he adds.
Another hedge against commercial vendor shifts is using open-source and open-weight models. This especially makes sense for simpler operations where state-of-the-art frontier models are unnecessary.
“Companies need digital autonomy – and that starts with open-source models,” says Keus. “Open-source models give you the portability and control to build a truly model-agnostic foundation.”
For him, the benefits are the ability to self-host, switch, audit, and fork models without rebuilding your infrastructure.
“At GreenPT, we run everything on open source,” adds Keus. “Even the newest coding models like GLM5.2 and Kimi2.7-code, are really good. We see that teams are switching more often.”"
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