Sora is dead.

OpenAI shut down Sora today and it is a decent gut check for anyone who built a workflow around a single AI platform.

The people I have seen adapt fastest when tools disappear are not the ones who knew the tool best. They understood the underlying problem the tool was solving. Video generation is not going anywhere. Sora as a product did not last. Those are two different things and it matters a lot which one your skills are actually tied to.

Two things I keep coming back to practically:

First, if any AI tool is in your production workflow, your prompts, output templates, and evaluation logic should live in version-controlled docs you own, not inside the platform UI. When it shuts down you should be able to swap in a replacement in a day, not a week.

Second, worth auditing whether your AI workflow is actually a transferable skill or just institutional memory of one product's interface. If it is the latter, that is a real liability right now. Deprecations and shutdowns are happening at startup speed and that pace is not slowing.

The question I keep asking myself: if the three tools I rely on most disappeared this week, what exactly would I lose and how fast could I rebuild?

Are you spreading bets across multiple providers right now or consolidating on fewer tools?