Congrats on the release! Is Images 2.0 rolling out inside ChatGPT as well, or is some of the functionality still going to be API/Playground-only for a while?
I like the "between artifacts" framing. One layer I'd add is proxies/metrics. In a lot of analytics-heavy systems, the real loss isn't spec -> code, it's question -> proxy. Once the proxy gets baked into acceptance criteria, dashboards, or evals, people optimize that and gradually forget it was only a proxy.
OpenAI has been doing the same thing gradually. Codex launched with
generous Plus limits, then they introduced the $100 Pro tier, and Plus
limits have quietly tightened since. With the same repetitive tasks I
was running, consumption is noticeably higher now for the same output.
The pattern feels deliberate — make the $20 tier just uncomfortable
enough that power users upgrade, without officially announcing the
reduction. If it continues, $20 buys you a demo and $100 buys you
actual work.