I don’t have any direct criticisms about anyone in particular, but the other thing is that any rational person spending this much time and money probably attempts to think of a business plan. So vendor lock-in creeps into our ideas even unintentionally. Nothing wrong with intentionally, per se.
We all tell ourselves it’s value-add, but come on, there’s always an element of “we’ll make ourselves a one-stop shop!”
So for example, I think the idea of modelfiles is sound. Like dockerfiles, cool! But other than superficially, it’s a totally bespoke and incompatible with everything else we came up with last year.
Bespoke has its connotation for reasons. Last I checked, the tokenizer fails on whitespace sometimes. Which is fine except for “why did you make us all learn a new file format and make an improvised blunderbuss to parse it!?”
(Heh. Two spaces between the verb and the args gave me a most perplexing error after copy/pasting a file path).
