These are the 5 most surprising takeaways from Sam Altman at OpenAI's big developer conference
THE SO WHAT
If the CEO is calling tokens a “terrible” metric and personally relying on Dots agents, expect OpenAI to push developers toward higher-level agent abstractions and usage-based value metrics instead of raw token counts. Teams building on this stack should design around workflows and outcomes now, because the billing and product surface are drifting away from low-level API primitives.
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