tszzl: doubling down on ChatGPT wasn't the real win — OpenAI should've shipped Codex in '24
tszzl · x · 2026-08-24
Pushing back on the Thiel-Altman anecdote, tszzl argues the chatbot paradigm tapped out quickly, and what actually drove OpenAI's success was the self-catalytic scaling of LLM progress. Had the business understood this, OpenAI would have built Codex in late 2024 rather than late 2025.
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