everyone's panicking about the wrong thing @OpenAI just cut @cursor_ai off. after @SpaceX bought it, they announced cursor loses direct model access on november 12. that post has 15 million views and the replies are devs realizing their whole workflow depends on a company that can flip a switch here's what the people who saw this coming did months ago: they stopped renting their ai leverage from one tool the setup that survives any of this, and costs nothing extra: → use an agent that isn't married to one model — @claudeai code, codex, opencode, aider all take a config swap → give it one project folder it owns: /in for sources, /out for what it produces, /skills for procedures it saves → connect your tools through mcp, not a tool's proprietary plugins — mcp moves with you → keep every model key in one env file. switching providers is a 10-second edit, not a migration → put it on a nightly job: it reads what you saved, updates /out, and leaves you a diff to approve over coffee → everything lives in git. the tool can die. your setup doesn't the point isn't which model. it's that no announcement can take your workflow away next time it's your tool getting acquired or cut off. the people with a portable setup won't even notice the news full setup below ↓ bookmark this before the feed buries it