OpenAI president: “The computer should be there to empower you.” So stop retooling software for AI agents

The New Stack · 1 month ago · 25

OpenAI president Greg Brockman argued on the a16z show that developers are overbuilding software “retooling” for AI agents and that agents should instead be able to use a computer directly. He referenced a plan from an offsite meeting in November 2015 and said a reinforcement-learning setup could use screen pixels plus keyboard and mouse as the environment. The shift would reduce reliance on purpose-built integrations like MCP servers, CLIs, and plugins, though connector infrastructure is still being built by companies like AWS and still remains important in the near term.