OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

OpenAI is developing AI agents for various applications, aiming to expand beyond coding into diverse professional fields. These agents, which operate for longer durations, consume more tokens, increasing their profitability for OpenAI. While OpenAI has focused on software engineers, competitors like Harvey and Clay are targeting specific verticals with model-agnostic approaches. OpenAI acknowledges that current effort settings for these agents are not intuitive for new users, with engineering lead Joe Gershenson stating improvements are needed to help users achieve the right level of reasoning.