The Work Now Within Reach
THE SO WHAT
OpenAI is explicitly pitching more capable, cheaper models as a way to expand the set of work individuals and small teams can credibly take on — not just to speed up existing tasks. Operators should revisit which projects were previously ‘too expensive to try’ and re-run the math with AI labor in the loop; the opportunity cost frontier has shifted.
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