OpenAI's new responses API is stateful and also offers good enough default integrated tools you can use...
- OpenAI's new responses API is stateful and also offers good enough default integrated tools you can use... that obviously are only available within the OpenAI ecosystem.
- It's a play to increase stickiness by offering something convenient that makes it harder for developers to switch to other models.
- A monkey trap.
- Has nice returns in the short-term for developers, but at a significant long-term cost.
- It also makes it harder for other platforms that abstract over multiple models to offer the same kinds of features, because now users can get them for free… if they just commit to one model provider.
- It's OpenAI trying to change the game from stateless, easy-to-swap LLM providers, where the only competition is on quality and cost of the model, and move it into more of an ecosystem value proposition.[tj]