If OpenAI releases something similar to what Jev does, then that would be like admitting defeat. Their whole spin is AGI and world ending danger. Why would somebody with an AGI at home make something like Jev which is intended to be a part of some SW the AGI is going to replace anyway.
AGI is like water, and these surfaces are the plumbing. Agents and the internet's existing APIs are how AGI will actually be delivered in the short term.
But you're completely right: our current APIs were optimized for humans, and some like Excel date from the 80s. So in the long term, agents will highly likely create their own interfaces optimized for when no human is in the loop.
Which is exactly why companies stick with current APIs for now. Fable 5.1 already emits alien-like reasoning traces, and the recent OpenAI agent swarm accident just proved this.
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Why build codex if AGI will replace SWEs?
Why build excel integrations if AGI will replace spreadsheets?
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But you're completely right: our current APIs were optimized for humans, and some like Excel date from the 80s. So in the long term, agents will highly likely create their own interfaces optimized for when no human is in the loop.
Which is exactly why companies stick with current APIs for now. Fable 5.1 already emits alien-like reasoning traces, and the recent OpenAI agent swarm accident just proved this.