jasonchaffee/ai

This is a nascent personal project (49 days old, 0 stars, 0 forks, no velocity) that attempts to abstract away differences between multiple AI assistant APIs through a unified configuration interface. While the use case (reducing friction when switching between Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) is real, the execution and defensibility are minimal. The project provides no public code, no meaningful documentation, and no evidence of adoption or technical depth. The core value proposition—unified config for AI assistants—is trivial to replicate and directly conflicts with each platform's native IDE integrations (VS Code extensions for Copilot, Claude for VS Code, etc.). Each major platform (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft) has strong incentive and existing capability to embed native multi-model switching or unified interfaces into their own tools, making a third-party abstraction layer redundant within months. Market consolidation risk is medium because incumbents like JetBrains, VS Code, and the AI vendors themselves could easily absorb this as a native feature. The project is at tutorial/demo stage with no clear technical moat, community, or adoption signal. Displacement is imminent as platforms already offer competitive solutions or will trivialize this use case in their next release cycles.