[jngiam1]

I find the state of MCPs with OpenAI quite confusing:

- As an end-user, you can connect MCPs only with `search` and `fetch` that only work in deep research mode.

- As a developer, you can use MCP with the API and that supports the full set of MCP tools - all tools become available; this shows in the dev playground.

- For Custom GPTs, they support any action, but not MCPs. So if you had a layer to translate MCP to their API spec, it will work. But Custom GPTs with actions only support models 4o and 4.1; so you don't get the benefit of the o-series of models.

Figuring out what works when is harder than it needs to be.

[randomjoe2]

OpenAI has fallen behind, way behind. Stop trying to benchmark off openai, it's pointless imo. They're not even playing the same game as everyone else.

[lherron]

The lack of MCP support in their desktop client is especially disappointing considering everything Anthropic has shipped on Claude Code the last few weeks.

ChatGPT desktop client with only search/fetch MCPs is far, far inferior to CC from a utility/value perspective.

[jimmydoe]

It feels like they don’t have a good product strategy that matches their engineering throughput.