OpenAI traded consumer simplicity for enterprise competition, analyst says
charlieholtz · x · 2026-09-02
A reply endorsing an analysis of OpenAI's product strategy. The original thread argues OpenAI traded the simplicity of the ChatGPT consumer experience — and the option to build simple, easy-to-use consumer agents — for the ability to compete in the enterprise market with Work and Codex, after Anthicop has been "killing it" there.
The thread calls it a reasonable trade-off, but notes the super app is getting very complicated: as a publicly traded company, every team will want to stuff their own feature or product into it.
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