“no more spending time trying to manage embeddings and providing context from these embeddings we spend a ton of time building this in house now everything is about to become a simple parameter in an API call we can delete a lot of our custom code”

Platform feature drops often help you — they delete your custom code

When the underlying platform ships the feature you were duct-taping together, panic is the default reaction — but Banua at SciSpace welcomed OpenAI shipping native embeddings/retrieval because it deleted months of custom infrastructure his team was maintaining. Reframe platform releases: each one collapses a layer of your engineering cost, freeing you to invest that capacity in features the platform will never build.