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I am consulting (software engineering) at two companies. At one company everyone is free to choose their preferred AI model while at the other the company imposes a strict AI policy that limits use to a single model.

From my perspective, the company where everyone can choose their own model has seen much higher adoption but there are regular discussions about which model to use and when.

Does your employer impose a strict AI policy or is everyone free to pick and choose?

Hi HN, I built BotParty.

It's a native macOS/iOS chat client for openrouter, built around Swift's DocumentGroup.

Each conversation is a regular file on disk — you can save them in folders, sync them with iCloud, email it. I made it because I got sick of the claude desktop app changing it’s system prompts on me constantly. I also wanted to be able to own all my own chats, and archive them locally. You can branch conversations by using ‘duplicate’ in the finder - which is something that i’ve found missing from all the other desktop chat apps.

A few things that fell out of the document model: - Conversations are diffable, so git history works - You can have many open at once in tabs/windows - Share Sheet and Spotlight search work - Nothing is locked into my app

I used openrouter so you can use claude/chatgpt/etc.

Thanks for reading this far. Feedback very welcome, especially on the file format.