Andrew Lee: belief

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…So convergence unless somebody manages to shake the snow globe with some sort of algorithmic insight-driven breakthrough. That's my guess. On the harness side, actually, I want to know. I think the harnesses are also kind of converging in terms of capabilities, and largely that's because it turns out the best harness is just through low-level primitives. In our case, we don't have super specific stuff for doing e-mail. We have a file system, and a database, and a shell, and a browser that it can use, and some simple primitives around writing to-dos and setting up triggers, but it's all very low There's nothing sort of workflow specific in there, and I think that's the right approach. The places where we differentiate are not around capabilities, but more around cost and ergonomics and speed are kind of the differentiators. So you mentioned having signed a deal with OpenAI. I'm sure the precise details of that are under an NDA or whatever. But one thing I'm kind of interested in watching is like a point of apparent divergence is the way they are positioning themselves with respect to products like Tasklet and also open source toolkits like OpenClaw, where OpenAI seems to be really leaning into, you can use your core OpenAI account in these other contexts. So I guess, what is that going to look like and how is that going to complicate life for you? I mean, for one thing, If I can log in with OpenAI and bring my own tokens, that totally changes your pricing model, right? Because now you've got a sort of more like a traditional SaaS type of business where the intelligence cogs are not flowing through you. I don't know exactly where they are on that, though. I know that they allow me to do it with OpenClaw. I haven't seen too many other things around the web. I've honestly expected it to come sooner. I think maybe they were just compute constrained enough that they didn't prioritize it, but I've learned that like compute constrained is like a good answer for anything. Sometimes it's real, maybe sometimes it's not, but it certainly it passes muster as an answer. So, you know, should we expect a future where I come to Task Club and I can just like connect my OpenAI account, bring my tokens, and how will that change the, you know, how will that complicate or change what you're doing?…

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