[cwrichardkim]

> They admitted that they were, and I am not lying about this, paywalling chat colors. […] This is a feature that a company adds when they are out of ideas

This observation + sherlocking cursor suggests that perhaps sherlocking is the ideation strategy. Curious to see if they’re subsidizing token costs specifically to farm and Sherlock ideas

[dentemple]

Yeah, I agree with the OP here. After all this time, being able to change the chat colors at this point has some real We-reached-the-bottom-of-the-backlog energy, and they're just now implementing the ideas that weren't considered important enough before by the PMs to consider.

It hardly feels like a next generation release.

As a related anecdote (not saying that this is industry standard, just pointing out my own experience), the startup I work for launched their app four years ago, and, for all four of those years, we've had "Implement a Dark Mode design" sitting at the bottom of our own backlog. Higher priority feature requests are always pre-empting it.

[msabalau]

The core product failure here is overhyping incremental improvement, eroding trust.

PMs operating at this level ought to be bringing in some low cost UX improvements alongside major features. That simply isn't a sign that they've run ought of backlog. (That said, it is rather pathetic to paywall this)

A moment's consideration ought to show that Open AI has plenty of significant work they they can be doing, even if the core model never gets any better than this.