The OpenAI Rewrite Tax: Five APIs in Three Years
OpenAI's real cost isn't tokens — it's rebuilding your product every year as each new SDK quietly orphans the last one.
OpenAI's Android Playbook: Give Away the Runtime, Own the Platform
OpenAI's Agents SDK follows the Android strategy almost structurally. Open-source the runtime, let competitors plug in, monetize the services layer on top. Anthropic bets on the iOS play. Google reveals its hand April 22.
OpenAI Didn't Win the AI Race — It Bought the Scoreboard
In seven weeks, OpenAI discredited SWE-bench, acquired Promptfoo, and wrapped every rival model in its SDK. Three defensible moves that add up to vertical integration of the entire AI evaluation stack.
Eight Sandboxes and the Lock-In Nobody Warned You About
OpenAI's Agents SDK ships with eight sandbox backends — Docker, E2B, Modal, Runloop, Daytona, Cloudflare, Vercel, Blaxel. Their security models, cold starts, egress policies, and cost structures diverge enough that picking wrong costs more than Anthropic's $0.08/hour fee you dodged.
The Auditor Now Works for the Audited
OpenAI bought Promptfoo, the eval framework red teams used to jailbreak OpenAI's own models. The independence that made it useful just got structurally compromised.