GPT-4o Changed the Interface, Not the Hard Part
OpenAI shipped a model that sees, hears, and talks back in real time. The demos look magical. The architecture implications are where it gets interesting.
OpenAI coverage in this archive spans 6 posts from Dec 2022 to May 2024 and treats openai as a production discipline: evaluation loops, tool boundaries, escalation paths, and cost control. The strongest adjacent threads are ai, llm, and architecture. Recurring title motifs include gpt-4o, changed, interface, and hard.
OpenAI shipped a model that sees, hears, and talks back in real time. The demos look magical. The architecture implications are where it gets interesting.
I built three things with the Assistants API. One shipped, one got scrapped, and one taught me where the API's limits really are.
OpenAI DevDay was not just a product launch. It was a platform play that changes the build-vs-buy calculus for every team shipping AI features.
Anthropic's Claude takes a different approach to AI safety. Here is how it compares to GPT in practice, from someone using both daily.
GPT-4 landed and everything changed. What I learned in the first week of building with it, and the architecture decisions that followed.
First impressions of ChatGPT from a working engineer. It is not a search engine, it is not a colleague, and it is definitely not a replacement. But it is something.