What Nickey Skarstad thinks about OpenAI
Product leader: director of product at Etsy, product lead at Shopify and at Airbnb (Experiences), VP of Product at The Wing, and a director of product at Duolingo; writes the newsletter Dear Builders.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Nickey Skarstad has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAs AI models' capabilities converge, the model itself is becoming less of a differentiator.
Their wordsAnd let's be real: we're reaching the point where the actual AI models are becoming commoditized. GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, DeepSeek … they're all impressive, and they're all getting better at roughly the same rate. As capabilities converge, the tech itself becomes less of a differentiator.
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