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jrklaus8 is loosening Mike-Canada's grip on any single AI vendor

The Canadian fork is moving onto a routing layer that lets it switch between model providers without rebuilding the app.

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jrklaus8 has started replacing Mike-Canada's hard-wired connections to individual AI providers with Vercel's AI SDK - an abstraction layer that lets an app talk to several model vendors through one common interface. In practice, that turns switching providers (or running a few side by side) into a configuration choice rather than a rewrite. The same piece of work also lays in a fresh database layer for the fork.

The caveat: it's half-done. The old direct connections still sit alongside the new ones, so this isn't ready to run as-is - it reads more as a clear statement of where the stack is headed than a finished switch.

So what Anyone weighing a legal-AI tool should care who controls the model underneath - a fork built to swap vendors on demand is harder to hold hostage on price or availability.

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5f8bc15b chore: Drizzle ORM and Vercel AI SDK migration scaffolding MikeOSS Bot 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub

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