OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black
Thibault Sottiaux, the OpenAI genius in charge of Codex and the new ChatGPT Homer Simpson car, on Twitter/X: I don’t come often to GMail [ sic ] (OpenAI is a Slack company), but I swear, every time I do open it, there is a new button somewhere around the top right corner. I mean, he’s right about Google’s zero-taste just-keep-cramming-shit-in approach to Gmail, but it’s almost hard to believe he…
OpenAI's high-ranking executive, Thibault Sottiaux, expressed frustration on Twitter/X regarding Google's Gmail interface, claiming they constantly add new features to it. While he might have a point about Google's approach, it's hard to ignore that OpenAI's own Codex team has applied the same strategy to ChatGPT. Gmail first appeared in 2004 with a simple and effective design, but over time, it has become overly complex.
Similarly, ChatGPT's initial release was minimalist and straightforward, but now, it's become unnecessarily complicated. Even though ChatGPT's original version still exists in a less visible form called "Coke ChatGPT Classic," it's clear that both Gmail and ChatGPT have evolved in ways that add unnecessary complexity to their user experiences.
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