[AmericanOP]

I do think OpenAI's brand is dumpstered.

[thunky]

Optimistic. My money is on everyone forgetting about this by next week.

[deepsquirrelnet]

That’s why I unsubbed today! Otherwise I might forget.

[cube00]

It will be interesting to see if this permeates out into the general public who already use ChatGPT or maybe it won't since it doesn't mention ChatGPT which is the stronger known brand rather then OpenAI.

[Analemma_]

It depends. Normies don't care, but a bunch of them are free tier users anyway. The people who care are disproportionately on the $200/month moneymaking plan; losing a bunch of them could hurt, especially if it snowballs the consensus that Claude Code is the serious choice for software engineering.

For one small data point, my Signal GC of software buddies had four people switch their subscriptions from Codex to Claude Max last night.

[yoyohello13]

Yeah just wait until the next model comes out. People will be riding Sam’s dick again in no time.

[actionfromafar]

Yeah, myself I use ChatGPT, not OpenAI!

[303space]

The way OpenAI and Anthropic are positioned in public discourse always reminded me of the Uber vs Lyft saga … Uber temporarily lost double digit marketshare in the US during a viral boycott over their perceived support of the Trump 1.0 admin. Heads did roll at the exec/founder level but eventually the company recovered.

[jellyroll42]

unfortunately I think that's probably a good analogy

[djeastm]

Among developers on HN, perhaps, but their goal is to soon replace developers altogether so from their perspective it's simple cost-benefit