Google's Dream Mode raises vendor lock-in concerns

Google announced 'Dream Mode' for enterprise, a feature providing persistent memory for agentic workflows. This allows AI harnesses to memorize user workflows and thought processes, creating shortcuts to increase productivity in collaborative environments like billing and order entry. The discussion contrasts this with ChatGPT, which memorizes workflows but does not allow exporting those memories to other LLMs like Claude, as the harness performs heavy lifting that is not portable. The inability to export institutional knowledge and decision authority creates vendor lock-in, where the harness becomes the 'secret sauce.' This raises governance questions about which principal the agent operates under when creating shortcuts and the lack of controls for users to approve or deny optimizations, leading to overly broad authority being granted to AI agents. The discussion argues that persistent memory features create dangerous, broad authority for AI agents and significant vendor lock-in because users cannot export their institutional knowledge or decision-making configurations to other platforms.