Veteran dev calls out OpenAI: trillion-dollar valuation, months-broken upgrade button
pixxelkick · reddit · 2026-10-06
A software developer with 18 years of experience published a lengthy critique of OpenAI: despite two years of heavy ChatGPT use, he finds everything except the model itself chronically broken — including an 'upgrade plan' button broken for many users for months. He argues it's hard to trust employees' claims about world-ending superintelligence when the flagship product's basic UX stays unfixed, and questions how the company justifies a trillion-dollar valuation while burning money on 'cracking millennium puzzles' instead of shipping basics.
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