Crafting CEO in Crunchbase: Build Vendor-Agnostic Agent Infrastructure Because Hyperscaler Policy Changes Are the Real Outage Risk
Sumeet Vaidya (CEO of Crafting, previously Meta, Uber and Discord) argued in a July 24 Crunchbase guest column that the binding constraint on enterprise AI is resilience rather than speed, citing policy and access changes at Anthropic and OpenAI as instability that teams underweight. His concrete recommendations: design so you can swap models and rewire agent behavior quickly, give agents the same permission and credential guardrails as human teams, and adopt new models without discarding in-house custom work. He offers no cost figures, and there is an obvious counter-argument — abstraction layers built for portability historically underuse whichever provider you actually run on — but the credential-parity point is the durable one.
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