I contributed technical content to an article titled “Why Orgs Choose OpenAI for AI — And Why that Could Change in an Instant” on the August 2025 edition of the Pure AI web site. See https://pureai.com/articles/2025/08/01/why-orgs-choose-openai-for-ai-and-why-that-could-change-in-an-instant.aspx.

The article begins with my observation:

McCaffrey observed that when a company selects an AI platform to use, they generally consider seven factors:

* Underlying model performance
* Platform technical ecosystem
* Strategic partnerships
* Name brand recommendation
* Developer loyalty
* Technical reputation
* Technical leadership

“Based on my recent experience with roughly two dozen clients, companies base their selection of an AI platform primarily on 1.) name brand recommendation, 2.) strategic partnerships, and 3.) platform developer resources and loyalty. The other four factors have significantly less impact on the platform selection process.”

I gave an opinion:

McCaffrey concluded, “In my opinion, the current biggest risk to OpenAI is a degradation of developer resources. Right now, OpenAI has good, but not great, documentation and examples. In the past, time and time again, I’ve seen examples of companies that get complacent with regards to developer relations, which erodes developer loyalty very quickly. If a competitor reaches a critical mass of superior developer resources, companies will be strongly tempted to jump to an easier-to-use platform very quickly.”

I’m a big fan of old science fiction movies. Just for fun, I used AI text-to-image tools to generate some fake signs that I’d use if I ever made my own science fiction movie.